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|'''Karellen''', ''[[Arthur C. Clarke|Childhood's End]]''}}
{{quote|''"there's a special kind of nerd though, who thinks computers will overtake humanity in thirty years, changing humanity in ways incomprehensible to us now, ignoring the third of the world without electricity. so the singularity is the nerd way of saying "in the future being rich and white will be even more awesome." it's flying car bullshit: surely the world will conform to our speculative fiction, surely we're the ones who will get to live in the future, it gives spiritual significance to technology developed primarily for entertainment or warfare, and gives nerds something to obsess over , that isn't the crushing vacuousness of their lives"''
|'''''[[Pictures for Sad Children]]''''', [http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID{{=}}102 giving a slightly more negative view]}}
{{quote|''"I have ''had'' it. I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger. I have had it with a planetary death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per ''day''. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. ''None'' of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to look nervously away, repeating the mantra: "I can't solve all the problems of the world." We can. [http://singinst.org/ We can] ''[http://singinst.org/ end]'' [http://singinst.org/ this.]"''
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