21. Discussing Vinge's Singularity Thirteen participants write essays on the Singularity; vernor vinge responds to each. Edited by Robin Hanson. http://hanson.gmu.edu/vi.html

A Critical Discussion of Vinge's Singularity Concept Vernor Vinge begain speaking on his "singularity" concept in the 1980s, and collected his thoughts into his first article on the topic in 1993. Since then, Vinge has continued to give talks, and has elaborated on his concept in several media interviews The idea of an upcoming "singularity" has captured the imaginations of many, and has been the topic of thousands of conversations among those interested in the future. Such conversations, however, tend to be very wide ranging, and thus rarely focus on any one topic long enough to really give it a critical examination. (Some web commentary on the topic can be found here and here In the hopes of inducing a better critical examination of the singularity concept, I invited 34 people to write comments on Vinge's singularity concept. Thirteen of these people commented, and Vinge then responded to their comments. Finally, for a two weeks period (September 6-20, 1998) Vinge, the commentors, and anyone else who wanted to joined in an open discussion on the Extropians email list.

22. KurzweilAI.net vernor vinge sold his first science fiction story in 1964. He is best known for True Names , Marooned in Realtime, A Fire Upon the Deep, and A Deepness in http://www.kurzweilai.net/bios/frame.html?main=/bios/bio0007.html

23. Rainbows End Copyright © 2006 by vernor vinge. Dedication To the Netbased cognitive tools Charles Vestal, Joan D. vinge, Gabriele Wienhausen, and William F. Wu. http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html

Rainbows End Rainbows End . Table of Contents: CHAPTER 00 : Dumb Luck and Smart Thinking CHAPTER 01 : Mr. Rabbit visits Barcelona CHAPTER 02 : The Return CHAPTER 03 : A Minefield Made in Heaven CHAPTER 04 : An Excellent Affiliance CHAPTER 05 : Dr. Xiang's SHE CHAPTER 06 : So Much Technology, So Little Talent CHAPTER 07 : The Ezra Pound Incident CHAPTER 08 : No User-Serviceable Parts Within CHAPTER 09 : Carrot Greens CHAPTER 10 : An Excellent Thesis Topic CHAPTER 11 : Introduction to the Librareome Project CHAPTER 12 : Guardians of the Past, Handmaidens of the Future CHAPTER 13 : The Miri Gang Is Born CHAPTER 14 : The Mysterious Stranger CHAPTER 15 : When Metaphors Are Real CHAPTER 16 : The Front Bathroom Incident CHAPTER 17 : Alfred Volunteers CHAPTER 18 : The Myasthenic Spelunker Society CHAPTER 19 : Failure is an Option CHAPTER 20 : The Officer of the Watch CHAPTER 21 : When Belief Circles Collide CHAPTER 22 : The Bicycle Attack CHAPTER 23 : In the Cathedral CHAPTER 24 : The Library Chooses CHAPTER 25 : You Can't Ask Alice Anymore CHAPTER 26 : How-to-Survive-the-Next-Thirty-Minutes.pdf

24. Vernor Vinge: The Singularity vernor vinge Department of Mathematical Sciences San Diego State University (c) 1993 by vernor vinge (This article may be reproduced for noncommercial http://kuoi.com/~kamikaze/doc/vinge.html

Vernor Vinge: The Singularity

25. Access : : Nature vernor vinge is an emeritus professor of computer science at San Diego State The answer, vernor vinge argues, will be limited only by our imaginations. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/full/440411a.html

Jump to main content Jump to navigation nature.com homepage ... Login Search This journal All of Nature.com Advanced search Access To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right). Journal home Archive Commentary Full Text Commentary Nature doi ; Published online 22 March 2006 Article Links See Also Editor's Summary Article Tools Send to a friend Export citation Export references Rights and permissions ... Bookmark in Connotea Search Pubmed for Vernor Vinge 2020 Computing: The creativity machine Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge is an emeritus professor of computer science at San Diego State University. His novel Rainbows End (2006) considers the Internet of 2025. Top of page Abstract What will emerge from using the Internet as a research tool? The answer, Vernor Vinge argues, will be limited only by our imaginations. We humans have built a creativity machine. It's the sum of three things: a few hundred million computers, a communication system connecting those computers, and some millions of human beings using those computers and communications. To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).

26. Vernor Vinge Interview - Boing Boing Sf great vernor vinge conducted an interview with the French sf site ActuSF about his lifechangingly weird and imaginative novel Rainbows End. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/13/vernor-vinge-intervi.html

Boing Boing Home Gadgets TV Suggest a Link ... Joel Vernor Vinge interview Posted by Cory Doctorow , August 13, 2007 7:33 AM permalink Sf great Vernor Vinge conducted an interview with the French sf site ActuSF about his life-changingly weird and imaginative novel Rainbows End ActuSF : In Rainbows End, there’s a switch between generations as they’re usually seen in fiction. Hackers and "juvenile delinquents" are all about 70 years old, and youngsters are mainly dedicated consumers, surfing the internet by the book. What is the message ? Vernor Vinge : Some of the old people in Rainbows End are very effective. (And whether effective or not, many of them are relatively healthy and rich.) While many still worry about poverty issues, the majority are well enough and rich enough to be a new type of upper class. In the 2025 of Rainbows End, the situation with old people is a surprising reversal of our current anxiety about pension plan insolvency. Just as in our time, most teenagers are better adapted to the latest technology than are their parents – though they are more worried than most of their parents ever were about the prospect of unemployment. And some of the youngest children (6 to 10 years old) are extraordinarily adept in exploiting the newest cognitive tools, and are regarded somewhat fearfully by their older siblings. Link See also: Vernor Vinge on computers, freedom and privacy

27. Reason Magazine - Superhuman Imagination vernor vinge on science fiction, the Singularity, and the state No name is linked more tightly to the idea of the Singularity than that of vernor vinge, http://www.reason.com/news/show/119237.html

@import "/media/css/tf.css"; /* layout - screen only*/ @import "/media/css/reason.css"; /* layout - screen only*/ Reason Magazine Contact Subscribe Site Search Home Subscribe Contact Us Reason Staff ... Submissions Site comments/questions: Mike Alissi Media Inquiries and Reprint Permissions: Chris Mitchell 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Suite 400 Los Angeles, CA 90034 ADVERTISEMENTS Superhuman Imagination Vernor Vinge on science fiction, the Singularity, and the state Mike Godwin Print Edition Foundation Dune The Singularity Is Near Vinge, who was also one of the first science fiction writers to conceive of cyberspace, formalized these ideas in an essay written for NASA in 1993 and published later that year in the Whole Earth Review (1986) and A Fire Upon the Deep Rainbows End (just out in paperback from Tor), Vinge comes toe to toe with imminent change. Humanity, within a couple of decades of the present day, is on the brink A Deepness in the Sky (1999), won not only a Hugo Award but also a Prometheus Award for the best libertarian novel of the year. Reason: Vernor Vinge: Reason: Do you believe this pervasive monitoring and/or control might stall the Singularity?

28. Vernor Vinge Biography And List Of Works - Vernor Vinge Books vernor vinge Biography vernor Steffen vinge (pronounced VIN-jee, rhyming with stingy ) (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist http://www.biblio.com/authors/200/Vernor_Vinge_Biography.html

View cart Help Rare Books Textbooks ... Search Search for books By author: By title: By keyword or ISBN: By binding: Any Hardcover Paperback Advanced booksearch @Biblio Search for books Book search Advanced search ISBN search Discount books ... Rare books Browse books Art Books Biography Books Books on Books Children's Books ... By author... Bookstores Find bookstores Community Book Reviews Book Discussion Book Collecting BiblioUnbound The monthly newsletter for booklovers E-mail address: Author Biographies Vernor Vinge Books by Vernor Vinge (Bibliography) 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. Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel

29. 3pointD.com » Blog Archive » Vernor Vinge Paints The Future At AGC Awardwinning science fiction vernor vinge, speaking at the Austin Game Conference, gave his vision of a future in which connectivity was literally in the http://www.3pointd.com/20060908/vernor-vinge-paints-the-future-at-agc/

3pointD.com The Metaverse and 3D Web, as blogged by Mark Wallace and friends ABOUT SEND NEWS TWITTER GLITCHY ... Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC Posted Friday, September 8th, 2006, at 4:54 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace Tags: 3D Web events games metaverse ... Virtual Reality Award-winning science fiction Vernor Vinge, speaking at the Austin Game Conference, gave his vision of a future in which connectivity was literally in the air around us. Author of Rainbows End You can imagine such ubiquity being then hooked up with sensors and effectors. An added feature to make this really turn into the sort of effectiveness it could be is the notion of localizers. In its simplest conceptual form, these are simply a feature that is on networked embedded processors, whereby the processor knows where it is in 3D space. Think about what that would mean. It actually elimates whole industries. It eliminates hundreds of different locational technologies. Almost all the moving parts machinery we have and coordination of moving parts machinery involves either having humans know how to position the parts or a wide variety of technologies working togehter. Hook that up with the issue of communciations, and we actually have very interesting solutions for getting results out to end points. If you know exactly where things are, not only can you make use of the ultra-wideband that we already are moving into, but you could even imagine using very good localizer technology to set up extremely high bit-rate lengths that were highly directional.

30. Vernor Vinge Science fiction author vernor vinge is a retired math and computer science professor, formerly of San Diego State University. His former wife, Joan D. vinge http://www.nndb.com/people/715/000023646/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Vernor Vinge AKA Vernor Stefan Vinge Born: 10-Feb Birthplace: Waukesha, WI Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: A Fire Upon The Deep Science fiction author Vernor Vinge is a retired math and computer science professor, formerly of San Diego State University. His former wife, Joan D. Vinge is also a science fiction writer. Vernor Vinge is best known for his Hugo Award winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and for his related essay "The Technological Singularity" (1993). Both works propose that within the very near future computer technology will arrive at a point at which computers can check and rewrite their own programming. This development will lead almost immediately to the emergence of superhuman sentient beings, leading in turn to a megatransformation of all technology and culture so vast that its ramifications cannot be predicted or described from this point in time as they are beyond ordinary human powers of conception. Vinge, who expects the singularity to occur by 2030, also predicts that this singularity, and its resultant superintelligences, will put an end, one way or another, to the human race as we know it the new superbeings will eliminate humans, transform humans, or possibly merely enslave them. Other works of note include his breakthrough cyberspace novella

31. IEEE Spectrum: Synthetic Serendipity Synthetic Serendipity By vernor vinge. First Published July 2004. In this futuristic tale, Mike Villas is good at playing games. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jul04/0704far.html

var sLocalState = "$channel"; Font Size: A A A // define the element that should be active by default. // this value can/will be overwritten in subsequent snippets when two different tabs share // the same grid - like Home and Magazine. var oDefaultElement = '$channel'; HOME >> CreateAd('728x90', 1, 1, 'no', ord); Synthetic Serendipity By Vernor Vinge First Published July 2004 In this futuristic tale, Mike Villas is good at playing games. He's about to find out if he's any good at playing people Email Print Comments Reprints ... Slashdot Illustration: Peter Bollinger Years Ago, Games And Movies were for indoors, for couch potatoes and kids with overtrained trigger fingers. Now they were on the outside. They were the world. That was the main reason Mike Villas liked to walk to school with the Radner twins. Fred and Jerry were a Bad Influence, but they were the best gamers Mike knew in person. "We got a new scam, Mike," said Fred.

32. Exploring Dystopia: Vernor Vinge's Singularity vernor vinge The Singularity. Reprinted in _True Names and Other Dangers_, vernor vinge, Baen Books, 1987. 30 vinge, vernor, True Names , http://hem.passagen.se/replikant/vernor_vinge_singularity.htm

Vernor Vinge: The Singularity Vernor Vinge Department of Mathematical Sciences San Diego State University (c) 1993 by Vernor Vinge (This article may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if it is copied in its entirety, including this notice.) The original version of this article was presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30-31, 1993. A slightly changed version appeared in the Abstract Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers (and some further dangers) are presented. The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge

33. Circuit Contact Lens, Presaged By Niven, Barnes And Vinge: Science Fiction In Th Circuit Contact Lens, As Predicted By vernor vinge re vernor vinge on 1/17/2008 Science Fiction in the News. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1409

34. Vernor Vinge On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Agents. Short biography. Disambiguation notice. Conversations ? 76. There are 76 conversations about vernor vinge s books. Users with books by vernor vinge http://www.librarything.com/author/vingevernor

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog By Mark Pellegrini , at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006. 2 pictures add a picture Author: Vernor Vinge Also known as: Vernor Vinge Verner Vinge Vernon Vinge Vernor, True names Vinge ... Vinge Vinge Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Vernor Vinge combine/separate works A fire upon the deep 1427 copies, 25 reviews A deepness in the sky 1110 copies, 23 reviews Rainbows end 607 copies, 28 reviews The peace war 324 copies, 6 reviews Across realtime 305 copies, 2 reviews Marooned in real time 290 copies, 4 reviews The collected stories of Vernor Vinge 181 copies, 3 reviews 170 copies, 2 reviews Tatja Grimm's world 144 copies, 4 reviews The witling 125 copies, 4 reviews True Names 30 copies, review Grimm's World 29 copies, review Fast Times at Fairmont High 6 copies, 2 reviews The Cookie Monster 5 copies, 6 reviews THE TOR SF SAMPLER (A Fire Upon the Deep) 4 copies, review see all 27 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars

35. The Coming Technological Singularity, Vernor Vinge, 1993 vernor vinge, Department of Mathematical Sciences, San Diego State .. Reprinted in True Names and Other Dangers, vernor vinge, Baen Books, 1987. http://www.accelerating.org/articles/comingtechsingularity.html

This article may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if it is copied in its entirety, including this notice.) [Permalink: http://accelerating.org/articles/comingtechsingularity.html The original version of this article was presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30-31, 1993. A slightly changed version appeared in the Winter 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review Vernor Vinge, Department of Mathematical Sciences, San Diego State University. Abstract Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers (and some further dangers) are presented. What is The Singularity? The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means by which science may achieve this breakthrough (and this is another reason for having confidence that the event will occur):

36. Instapundit.com - The Glenn And Helen Show: An Interview With Vernor Vinge I m interested in the Singularity, and I m a big fan of vernor vinge s. He s got a new book out next week called Rainbows End, set in 2025, http://instapundit.com/archives/029925.php

About Podcasts PDA Backup ... Main document.write(''); April 26, 2006 The Glenn and Helen Show: An Interview with Vernor Vinge I'm interested in the Singularity, and I'm a big fan of Vernor Vinge's. He's got a new book out next week called Rainbows End, set in 2025, and as I've mentioned before it's pretty much an Army of Davids kind of world. He's also the author of such previous classics as A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. We talk to him about the Singularity and how it may come from the superhuman "ensemble behavior" of ordinary humans with powerful computers linked via the Internet rather than through the development of superhuman artificial intelligence about signposts indicating how we're doing, about humanity's prospects for utopia or extinction, and related minor issues. We also discussed writing science fiction (the secret, he says, is "brain parasitism," taking advantage of readers' smarts), whether college is becoming obsolete, mind uploading, and the joys (or lack thereof) of virtual-reality sex, a question that perplexes Helen. You can listen directly (no iPod needed) by clicking right here,

37. True Names - The Novel By Vernor Vinge Including himself. Beyond those years or decades were millennia. And Ery. vernor vinge San Diego June 1979January 1980 Afterword, by Marvin Minsky. http://home.comcast.net/~kngjon/truename/truename.html

Comment by the transcriber: TRUE NAMES "The story is a marvelous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery. Vinge posits that in a direct neurocybernetic interface, the information would be analogized by the brain into symbols it is comfortable with. The "place" in which the Coven "meets," for example, is or seems to be a castle, guarded by a program which manifests itself as a firebreathing dragon, sitting in a magma moat, wear- ing an asbestos T-shirt. Fail to satisfy it, and it will "kill" you, dumping you back into the real worlda fate most Wizards seem to regard as very little better than death. "Vinge set himself about fifteen challenges in this story, any one of which might have wrecked a lesser writer, and pulled them all off with appalling ease. No point in listing them allbut the most important one to my mind is this: he succeeded in making me feel , for over an hour, what it is like to be more than human. That is one of SF's major challenges, and it is bloody hard to do. "Do not miss this ingenious and truly original storyit is one of those that, when you're done, you wish the author were present so you could applaud." Analog Magazine Other books by Vernor Vinge: GRIMM'S WORLD THE WITLING THE PEACE WAR (available from Bluejay Books) TRUE NAMES VERNOR VINGE Bluejay Books Inc.

38. A Deepness In The Sky By Vernor Vinge, A Hugo Award Winning Science Fiction Book Summary and review of the author s book. Includes cover art, character list, ratings, commentary, and bibliography. http://members.aol.com/tishede/vvinge.htm

SCIENCE FICTION BOOK SELECTION A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY by VERNOR VINGE A Deepness in the Sky (1999) 1999 Nebula Award Nominee 2000 Hugo Award Winner Tor paperback - 774 pages inside cover art by Boris Vallejo (left) note-cover is shiny silver, not deep gray Tor Books hardcover - 606 pages cover art by Bob Eggleton (right) Amy's Summary Characters list Our book ratings Aaron's Commentary ... Links This is a loosely connected prequel to Vernor Vinge's Hugo Award winning book A Fire Upon the Deep From the back cover: After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: The Qeng Ho, a culture of free, innovative traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for the alien planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifty years... Amidst terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike.

39. A Fire Upon The Deep (Vernor Vinge) - Book Review In The Peace War and Marooned in Real Time vinge took one idea, did a thorough working through of its consequences, and used it to build a whole future http://dannyreviews.com/h/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge Orion Books 1992 A book review by Danny Yee In The Peace War and Marooned in Real Time Vinge took one idea, did a thorough working through of its consequences, and used it to build a whole future history on. A Fire Upon the Deep is rather different, being a space opera on the grand scale. It contains enough big ideas for a couple of books: distributed consciousness and personality in a dog-like race on the verge of a technological revolution, a heterogeneous universe where the laws of physics change with distance from the galactic centre, a galactic USENET (complete with ignorant, banal, and simply bizarre postings), Powers from the Beyond and lots more. But none of that is pushed too hard, or allowed to interfere with the plot, and A Fire Upon the Deep is a splendid entertainment, among the most compelling light science fiction novels around. 10 May 1993 External links: - buy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk Related reviews: - more science fiction %T A Fire Upon the Deep %A Vinge, Vernor

40. Vernor Vinge Keeps Raising The Bar For Space Opera A Deepness in the Sky is a prequel to vernor vinge s A FireUpon the Deep, but it doesn t share much plot, character or mood with that Hugowinning space http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/books/deepness_sky_000110.html

SEARCH: advertisement Vernor Vinge Keeps Raising the Bar for Space Opera By Michael Sullivan special to space.com posted: 05:04 pm ET 10 January 2000 A Deepness in the Sky is a prequel to Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, but it doesn't share much plot, character or mood with that Hugo-winning space opera. What the books have in common is sheer excellence. - slower-than-light travel - the Qeng Ho return, along with Emergents and Spiders - exciting characters, innovative technology More Stories New Book Takes 'The Hobbit' into Space 'Midnight Robber' Uses Myth, Language To Expand SF Millennial Space Opera: Hamilton's 'Naked God' Sarah Zettel's 'Quiet Invasion' Makes Big Noise About Venus A Fire Upon the Deep was an epic, full of galactic threats and technology so advanced even its operators thought of it as approaching magic. Deepness has much less technology faster-than-light travel hasn't even been invented yet and feels almost claustrophobic in its focus on two starships orbiting one planet. Not too slow for thrills Slower-than-light (STL) settings are rare in science fiction, and for good reason. It's hard to believe that any society could be held together by the years of travel time between stars. How do you manage a civilization where each outpost is a hundred years from its nearest neighbor?

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