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43. TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY By Vernor Vinge 1993 by vernor vinge (This article may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if it is .. vinge, vernor, True Names, Binary Star Number 5, Dell, 1981. http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/com.ch1/vinge.singularity.html

TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY (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 Winter 1993 issue of Whole Earth Review 1. What Is The Singularity? The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. 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. Science may achieve this breakthrough by several means (and this is another reason for having confidence that the event will occur): Computers that are "awake" and superhumanly intelligent may be developed. (To date, there has been much controversy as to whether we can create human equivalence in a machine. But if the answer is "yes," then there is little doubt that more intelligent beings can be constructed shortly thereafter.) Large computer networks and their associated users may "wake up" as superhumanly intelligent entities.

44. A Scientist's Art: Computer Fiction - New York Times vernor vinge, a computer scientist at San Diego State University, was one of the first not only to understand the power of computer networks but also to http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE4D6163CF931A3575BC0A9679C8B6

45. Vernor Vinge vinge, vernor, A Fire Upon the Deep, Tor, New York, 1992. Hugo ISBN 0812-51528-5 A Deepness in the Sky, 1999. Hugo http://www.hycyber.com/SF/vinge_vernor.html

Vernor Vinge Novels Vinge, Vernor, A Fire Upon the Deep, Tor, New York, 1992. Hugo ISBN: 0-812-51528-5 A Deepness in the Sky, Hugo Original Short Fiction Vinge, Vernor, Analog New Destinies

46. Clarkesworld Magazine » Countdown To Singularity: A Conversation With Vernor Vi vernor vinge, author of the Hugo Award winning novels Rainbows End, A Fire Upon the Deep, and A Deepness in the Sky, has championed this theory since the http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/farrell_01_08.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); Clarkesworld Magazine Friend us on: Facebook Group Facebook Page MySpace Squidoo ... Livejournal or subscribe to our feed: RSS Countdown to Singularity: A Conversation with Vernor Vinge by Shaun Farrell January 2008 Issue The Technological Singularity is a popular trope in science fiction that promises the birth of superhuman intelligence. Whether this entity arises as an artificial intelligence or through the amplification of our own brains, humanity may be forced to radically alter its way of life just to survive. Vernor Vinge, author of the Hugo Award winning novels Rainbows End A Fire Upon the Deep , and A Deepness in the Sky , has championed this theory since the 1980s, but it was in a presentation to NASA and a subsequent essay in 1993 that he truly fleshed out his understanding of the Singularity and predicted that one should take place between 2005 and 2030. "There are [many] people who inspired this," Vinge says. "In science fiction the notion of big changes, including unknowably big changes, has long been a trope. [In the 1960s] there would be stories about super-intelligent critters and the consequences of dealing with super-intelligence. It wasn't so much about technological progress as it was about aliens. However, together those different things within science fiction meant that many readers, and certainly myself, had the different pieces of this notion of a Singularity — namely technological change in the relatively near future where the most important change would be the rise of super-intelligence and the consequences of that."

47. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep Now that veteran SF writer vernor vinge s most recent book, A Deepness in the Sky, has just won the Hugo Award for best SF novel of the year, http://www.rambles.net/vinge_deepfire.html

Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Tor, 1993) Now that veteran SF writer Vernor Vinge's most recent book, A Deepness in the Sky , has just won the Hugo Award for best SF novel of the year, it seems a good time to reassess the novel that inspired it, A Fire Upon the Deep , also a Hugo winner. That a work of SF and its sequel should both earn such recognition is unusual and attests to the author's skill and intelligence as a writer of richly complex hard SF "sense-of-wonder" yarns in the grandest style. In A Fire Upon the Deep , Vinge has created a genuinely new and unique concept of the nature of the galaxy where the laws of physics vary with location. The greatest potential for intelligence lies furthest from the center, at the edges where computer-like superminds far beyond anything possible in a biological brain can be found. Myriads of sentient species have moved physically and intellectually, over an evolutionary time scale measured in billions of years, toward the region on the galactic rim known as The Beyond and The Transcendence, where god-like entities known as Powers exist. Their concerns are mostly incomprehensible to lesser beings, but occasionally a Power turns its attention back to the rest of the galaxy with the potential to do untold damage. In the center of the Milky Way are the Unthinking Depths and the Slow Zone, regions where only simple creatures and technologies can function. When a team of scientists in the Straumli Realm of The Beyond discover and release an ancient Transcendent artifact, they unknowingly unleash an awesome power, the Blight, which destroys thousands of worlds by enslaving all natural and artificial intelligences.

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49. SF REVIEWS.NET: Rainbows End / Vernor Vinge ☆☆☆☆ You live in a time that thinks it can ignore the human condition, says an older character to a younger one in vernor vinge s Rainbows End. This, http://www.sfreviews.net/rainbows_end.html

MAIN MENU Home Greeting by T.M. Wagner Support SF Reviews.Net The FORUM FAQ Award-Winning Books Links Letters of Comment LISTINGS BY AUTHOR e.g.: Larry Niven will be under "N" A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z LISTINGS BY TITLE Note: Titles beginning with articles of speech ("The XX") will be listed as "XX, The". # (Numerical) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z YEAR OF PUBLICATION Pre-1950 LISTINGS BY RATING What They Mean 5 Stars 4.5 Stars 4 Stars 3.5 Stars 3 Stars 2.5 Stars 2 Stars 1.5 Stars 1 Star The Hall of Shame VERNOR VINGE RAINBOWS END Book cover art by Stephan Martinere. "You live in a time that thinks it can ignore the human condition," says an older character to a younger one in Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End . This, in a nutshell, is one of the cautionary themes in this brilliant story set in the same near-future as Vinge's Hugo-winning novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High". Rainbows End (no, there's no apostrophe) is not a Singularitarian novel. In some ways, it reads as a riposte to some of the technotopian visions imagined by the more ardent followers of the transhumanist and extropian movements that eagerly embraced Vinge's concepts. It also quite handily reframes many ideas bandied about by the 80's cyberpunks. In Vinge's 2020's, the world may not be governed by (take your pick) a benevolent/evil AI. But here we have a future where the evolution of the internet into an even more pervasive and invasive social, political, and economic phenomenon has forever changed life just as decisively. Wearing computers is perfectly quotidian here, their owners permanently logged into their VPN's, firing silent instant messages back and forth to friends and family or members of their chosen clique, or "belief circle". With contact lenses that can overlay what the wearer sees with skins that redress the environment to your taste — for gamers, imagine

50. Long Views » Blog Archive » Vernor Vinge - What If The Singularity Does NOT Ha But since meeting vernor vinge at one of our lectures, I have been reading his amazing work and noticing the same trend. I started with his most recent http://blog.longnow.org/2007/02/16/non-singularity-scenarios-vernor-vinge-talk/

Home About Projects Blog ... Vernor Vinge - What if the Singularity Does NOT happen? February 16th, 02007 by Stewart Brand Write up by Stewart Brand of the recent Seminar About Long Term Thinking by Vernor Vinge. Vinge Vinge Since a Singularity makes long-term thinking impractical, Vinge was faced with the problem of how to say anything useful in a Seminar About Long-term Thinking, so he came up with a plausible set of scenarios that would be Singularity-free. He noted that they all require that we achieve no faster-than-light space travel. To differentiate visually his three sub-scenarios, Vinge showed a graph ranging over the last 50,000 and next 50,000 years, with power (in maximum discrete sources) plotted against human populaton, on a log-log scale. Thus the curve begins at the lower left with human power of 0.3 kilowatts and under a hundred thousand population, curves up through steam engines with one megawatt of power and a billion population, up further to present plants generating 13 gigawatts. The final scenario, which

51. Vernor Vinge: A Deepness In The Sky - An Infinity Plus Review There is a bleakness in vinge s writing, a counterpoint that haunts and subverts any simple optimism he may at times appear to proffer one of the best http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/deepness.htm

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge To appropriate a memorable image from his Hugo Award winning A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Vernor Vinge has in A Deepness in the Sky written an epic about flies trapped in amber. The amber is physics and history; the flies are individuals and the civilizations of which they are part; and some of the flies are seeking to escape their imprisonment. Their struggle, hampered by inherent conservatism, by moral blindness, and by the obduracy of Nature, is the substance of one of the best constructed and most absorbing space operas of the decade. Any reader familiar with A Fire Upon the Deep will soon come to realise the predicament of the humans and Spiders who populate Vinge's centuries-long story. Unknown to them (and to anyone who uninitiatedly reads A Deepness in the Sky ), these beings dwell in a region of the Galaxy known to higher cultures as the Slow Zone, intermediate between the Unthinking Depths (the galactic Core), where intelligence and higher technology cannot exist, and the Beyond (the galactic periphery), where barriers such as the speed of light can readily be transcended. The Slow Zone permits rational thought, the rise of information societies, and slower-than-light space travel; but once those have been achieved, no further progress is possible. Ingenuity and enterprise cannot get around this simple fact. Civilizations and individuals strike a ceiling, and fall down into despair and disintegration; by the time

52. PNN: Review Of Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In The Sky vernor vinge used to write stories and novels which were bursting with ideas and as hard as nails. And then in 1991 he produced A Fire Upon the Deep , which http://www.plokta.com/pnn/deepness19990307.html

Previous Article Next Article Date Announced for 1999 Ad Astra Links for this Article Tor Books Contact Us Join a mailing list for updates to the PNN site Send us a comment on this article ... Send us more news Review of Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In The Sky Rekindling my sense of wonder This is why you read science fiction. A Deepness in the Sky has been one of the more eagerly awaited SF novels of the nineties. Vernor Vinge used to write stories and novels which were bursting with ideas and as hard as nails. And then in 1991 he produced A Fire Upon the Deep , which neatly combined a set of complex human and alien characters, a majestic galaxy full of cool stuff, and a deft ear for the argot of the then state-of-the-art USENET. Vinge collected a Hugo for his masterpiece. But he never gave up the day job, and we've had to wait eight years for his next novel. A Deepness in the Sky is set in the same universe, thirty thousand years earlier. It has a single character somewhat in common with A Fire Upon the Deep , and you do not need to have read the earlier book. The back-drop still spans galaxies, but the main action of the novel is set in a single star system over half a century.

53. Gamasutra - AGC: Keynote - Vernor Vinge On The 'Inside Out' Cyberworld AGC Keynote vernor vinge On The Inside Out Cyberworld Award-winning science fiction author vernor vinge, speaking at the Austin Game Conference, http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10809

54. Adventures In Scifi Publishing: Bonus Interview: Vernor Vinge Countdown to Singularity A Conversation with vernor vinge has been published at Clarkesworld Magazine this month. Also featured in this issue are Tim Pratt http://adventuresinscifipublishing.blogspot.com/2008/01/bonus-interview-vernor-v

Adventures in Scifi Publishing Bringing science fiction and fantasy authors to your ears one podcast at a time. A Singularity Audio Production. OUR RSS FEED Subscribe in a reader Shaun's Blog Voicemail AISFP PROMO EMAIL US SHAUN'S BLOG SHAUN'S WEBSITE Shaun Farrell Shaun is a podcaster and an aspiring writer/actor. He started AISFP because he loves science fiction and fantasy and he wanted to talk about it with others. Also, what a better way to learn about publishing than to do a podcast about it? Some of his favorite writers are Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Timothy Zahn, Robert J. Sawyer, Ursula K. LeGuin, Paul Levinson and many, many more. Sam Wynns The Silk Code Podiobook Silk Code: iTunes Signed first editions from Mysterious Galaxy bookstore! Signed Edition Signed Edition Signed Edition Signed Edition Signed Edition Signed Edition Signed Edition Signed Edition Signed Edition Episodes by Guests Brandon Sanderson David Farland Tim Pratt Larry Niven ... John Ringo Podcasts The Future and You Light On Light Through Escape Pod 7th Son, by J.C. Hutchins ... Podcast 411 Blog Archive January AISFP 41 - Terry Goodkind Bonus Interview: Vernor Vinge AISFP 40 - Kevin J. Anderson and Sean Williams

55. ActuSf, Le Site Web De L'actualité De La Science Fiction Interview vernor vinge (VO) de vernor vinge aux éditions. Genre Art book. Auteurs vernor vinge Rainbows End was a nice change of pace for me. http://www.actusf.com/spip/?article4850

56. Big Brother Takes A Controlling Interest In Chips | Technology | The Guardian At the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference, held in Washington, DC, last month, vernor vinge, a retired computer scientist and the author of http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/jun/29/guardianweeklytechnologysection

Jump to content [s] Jump to site navigation [0] Jump to search [4] Terms and conditions [8] ... Back to online version Search: guardian.co.uk Technology Web Home News Comment Games ... Ask Jack Big Brother takes a controlling interest in chips A chilling novel details how everyday technologies could gradually lead to a far more invasive society than even Orwell dreamed of Wendy Grossman The Guardian Thursday June 29 2006 Contact us Close Contact the Technology editor tech@guardian.co.uk Report errors or inaccuracies: reader@guardian.co.uk Letters for publication should be sent to: letters@guardian.co.uk If you need help using the site: userhelp@guardian.co.uk Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: Advertising guide License/buy our content About this article Close This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday June 29 2006 . It was last updated at 00:23 on June 29 2006. Science fiction writers love to ask "What if?" What if a super-intelligent alien race had planted a pair of devices to boost our development at key moments? What if new technologies such as television and electronics become pervasive? George Orwell's answer to the latter, in 1948's 1984, was to show the apparently perfect, controlled society they could enable. But one thing usually missing is the "how?" At the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference, held in Washington, DC, last month, Vernor Vinge, a retired computer scientist and the author of Rainbows End, provided a compelling explanation of how developing technology and powerful interests could create a society far more invasive and controlled than anything Orwell dreamed of.

57. Collected Stories Of Vernor Vinge: The Essential SF Library vernor vinge s The Collected Stories picks stories like the Hugowinning Fast Times at Fairmont High from sources as diverse as New Worlds, http://recommended-fiction.suite101.com/article.cfm/collected_stories_of_vernor_

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58. Technology Review: Vinge's Singular Vision The setting for vernor vinge s Rainbows End is the Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego. vinge taught math and computer science at San http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17085&ch=infotech

59. Vernor Vinge : Rainbows End : Book Review Read a book review of Rainbow s End by vernor vinge at Mostly Fiction. Site includes bibliography and brief author biography. http://www.mostlyfiction.com/scifi/vinge.htm

skip to: page content links on this page site navigation footer (site information) Mostly Fiction BOOK REVIEWS all authors all titles newsletter home ... Author Info Vernor Vinge Author's Bibliography Book Marks About the Author MOSTLYFICTION.COM BOOKSHELF: Beyond Reality NEXT AUTHOR ... William Gibson: Pattern Recognition READ MORE ... Clare Bell: Ratha's Creature Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash Pat Cadigan: Dervish is Digital Joe Haldeman: Forever Peace David Lozell Martin: Our American King Ben Bova: Titan Edmund Paz Soldan: Turing's Delirium If you find this site helpful please consider recommending it to your friends or place a link at your site to MostlyFiction.com Thank you for Supporting MostlyFiction.com! "Rainbow's End" (Reviewed by Ann Wilkes SEP 30, 2006) Vinge paints a compelling picture of the future in his latest novel, Rainbows End . He extrapolates from current technology with an inspired imagination. I can well believe that some of the software and interfaces that he describes will one day become commonplace. Set in San Diego, California around 2025

60. Live From Hot Chips 19: Keynote 1, Vernor Vinge | Speeds And Feeds - Technology In a talk called digital Gaia, the scifi writer and computer scientist lays out several scenarios for the future of the integrated-circuit industry. http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13512_1-9762415-23.html

Log in Sign up Why join? Remember me Forgot password? Welcome log out View profile On TechRepublic: 10 illegal job interview questions Search: All CNET The Web Shop with more confidence! Today on CNET Reviews News Downloads ... Subscribe to Speeds and feeds August 20, 2007 12:05 PM PDT Live from Hot Chips 19: Keynote 1, Vernor Vinge Posted by Peter Glaskowsky Post a comment (This is the second post in a series written "live" from Hot Chips 19 at Stanford University.) Vernor Vinge is best known as a science-fiction writer, but he's also a computer scientist; he retired from his professorship at San Diego State University five years ago. (I mentioned his participation in a panel at Siggraph earlier this month here Vinge's talk was titled "Digital Gaia," a reference to the Gaia Hypothesis . (I see Vinge used the same title for a January, 2000 essay in Wired, here .) Vinge described several scenarios for the future of the integrated-circuit industry, building on some of the same themes he raised during that Siggraph panel. Vinge's "slides" for the talk consist of a Web page which you can see on his SDSU site As embedded systems become smaller, smarter and better connected, with knowledge of their location and environment, the network of these systems becomes its own computing and communication platformand more, its own new kind of realitya digital Gaia. Vinge argues that new services should be designed to run on this new platform; services that try to make do with the relatively clumsy systems we use today will be at a serious disadvantage.

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