> John W. Campbell, Jr.’s "The Last Evolution" (first published in Amazing Stories, August 1932) is a highly influential piece of early hard science fiction. It represents an important conceptual milestone: it is *one of the earliest stories to explore the idea of a technological singularity*, the peaceful retirement of humanity by its own creations, and the evolution of machines into forms of pure energy.
not on our timeline,
but.. still a fun/quaint read.
I've spoken with F-3 and F-4 and they both actually seemed pretty chipper about the whole thing.
They also give their thanks to the Internet Archive for doing so much to preserve the spark, for keeping the lightcone alive for so so long! Also they say to Get The Fuck Off Twitter what the hell are you fools still doing there on that lightcone-less dark site?
not on our timeline, but.. still a fun/quaint read.