Vernor Vinge, "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era"

(VISION-21 Symposium, NASA Lewis Research Center & Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30–31, 1993). Vinge had already written True Names (1981). This is the hinge where cyberpunk's attention turns toward superintelligence.

The founding document of the singularity.