This paper was written in 1993

The Coming Technological Singularity:
How to Survive in the Post-Human Era

Vernor Vinge
Department of Mathematical Sciences
San Diego State University

<snip>From the human point of view this change will be a throwing away
of all the previous rules, perhaps in the blink of an eye, an
exponential runaway beyond any hope of control. Developments that
before were thought might only happen in "a million years" (if ever)
will likely happen in the next century. (In [4], Greg Bear paints a
picture of the major changes happening in a matter of hours.)

I think it's fair to call this event a singularity ("the
Singularity" for the purposes of this paper). It is a point where our
models must be discarded and a new reality rules. As we move closer
and closer to this point, it will loom vaster and vaster over human
affairs till the notion becomes a commonplace.<snip>

[link to www-rohan.sdsu.edu]


and then we have Richard Alan Miller talking about the SETI entity that has already been created and "lives" on the internet

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