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'''Iwakura, Yasuo''': Sometimes I wonder. |''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]''}}
{{quote|''"The time has come to cast aside these bonds and to elevate our consciousness to a higher plane. It is time to become a part of all things!"''|'''The Puppet Master''', ''[[Ghost in
{{quote|''"As distances vanish and the people can flow freely from place to place, society will cross a psychological specific heat boundary and enter a new state. No longer a solid or liquid, we have become as a vapor and will expand to fill all available space. And like a gas, we shall not be easily contained."''|'''Sister Miriam Godwinson''', ''[[Sid
{{quote|''"We have reached an informational threshold which can only be crossed by harnessing the speed of light directly. The quickest computations require the fastest possible particles moving along the shortest paths. Since the capability now exists to take our information directly from photons travelling molecular distances, the final act of the information revolution will soon be upon us."''|'''Academician Prokhor Zakharov''', ''[[Sid
{{quote|''"In a few years, it will all be over, and the human race will have divided in twain. There is no way back, and no future for the world you know. All the hopes and dreams of your race are ended now. You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that you will never understand them--will never even be able to communicate with their minds. [...] You will not think them human, and you will be right."''|'''Karellen''', ''[[Arthur C. Clarke
{{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]}}
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