Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files ==== Vernor Vinge ==== "Vernor Steffen Vinge (pronounced VIN-jee, rhyming with 'stingy') (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. " From [[wp>Vernor_Vinge]] * author of [[True Names]], [[Vinge on Evolution|Nature, Bloody in Tooth and Claw]], Fire in the Deep, described [[The Singularity]], etc+ * slides form a talk "imagining the future" http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/npaci.html * a short story in sensor nation "synthetic serendipity http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jul04/0704far.html * Rainbows End > http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html * ... and what about the Tynes ?+ Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International vernor_vinge.1192814077.txt.gz Last modified: 2007-10-19 17:14by 192.168.1.34