Two quotes caught my eye while reading “The Bug” by Ellen Ullman: “To a machine, all here’s are equal.” “To discover that between the blinks of the machine’s shuttered eye – going on without pause or cease; simulated, imagined, but still not caught – was life.” (the last sentence of the book)

I just finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross for the second time. It’s a scifi novel which starts in the near-future with the first hints of computers augmenting man’s intelligence.  The Singularity draws near as man becomes more integrated with machine  – posthumans are born.  Well, not born, more like evolved.  Humans and intelligence change more [...]