61. TPN :: GDay World » Blog Archive » G’DAY WORLD #271 - Vernor Vinge, SF A Today I had the fortune to chat with another living legend vernor vinge (pronounced “vin-jee” as in, he explained off air, “stingy”). http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/07/31/gday-world-271-vernor-vinge-sf

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62. Vernor Vinge Quotes 26 quotes and quotations by vernor vinge. vernor vinge And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I d be more comfortable if I http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vernor_vinge.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Vernor Vinge Quotes Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Date of Birth: February 10 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Vernor Vinge Related Authors: Mason Cooley H. L. Mencken Eric Hoffer Elbert Hubbard ... Jeff Long A minority felt that the largest 1992 computers were within three orders of magnitude of the power of the human brain. Vernor Vinge And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. Vernor Vinge Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. Vernor Vinge Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. Vernor Vinge Based largely on this trend, I believe that the creation of greater than human intelligence will occur during the next thirty years.

63. Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (No Such Weblog) A close friend recently gave me vernor vinge s Rainbows End ; in case you wonder about the spelling, there s a chapter called the missing apostrophe . http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/2007/11/18/2151_vernor_vinge_rainbows_end

No Such Weblog Thomas Roessler 's notes on geek life in Luxembourg and less virtual topics. Main Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End A close friend recently gave me Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End"; in case you wonder about the spelling, there's a chapter called "the missing apostrophe". The book's subtitle is "a novel with one foot in the future", and as with most science-fiction, the foot in the present is the one that matters most. Vinge introduces his reader to a not-too-distant future (2025). To build it, he does not need to break any laws of physics (almost) all he describes is built on some plausible and incremental advances over today's technological state of the art, and then some choices that societies might make (or rather, are making ) about dealing with it. This world is, in some ways, post-apocalyptic: The next big California quake is a thing of the past, and (though the reader isn't bothered with the details) it's a great success that no major city has been lost for five years. 9/11 is really just a prelude to this world. Weapons of mass destruction are available to "anyone who has a bad hair day", and so this future is one of surveillance and an almost almighty security apparatus. Constraints on technology paired with surveillance are not just a matter of the Great Powers, though: Ubiquitous wearable computing comes with the possibility to subvert others' wearable computers; and there is broad and wide information sharing and use. Forget privacy. Also, right holders' wildest dreams seem to have come true: Microroyalty payments are built into the infrastructures.

64. Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" Is Online Free And A Great Read | Voices Online vernor vinge s Rainbows End is online free and a great read. Bill. Posts 150 Joined 200602-26. A great recent science fiction novel is now available http://www.voicesweb.org/?q=node/1154

65. Science Fiction Book Reviews he Collected Stories of vernor vinge includes all but two of the short vernor vinge has not been a prolific writer, but his stories are stocked with http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue241/books2.html

Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_xl=728;Ads_yl=90;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_xp1='';Ads_yp1='';Ads_opt=0;Ads_wrd='[KeyWord]';Ads_prf='[Profile]';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_sec=0;Ads_channels=''; ALSO IN THIS ISSUE The Getaway Special RECENT REVIEWS Skin Folk Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell Defender Hosts ... Impact Parameters The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge Four decades of quality hard science-fiction stories are at last assembled in a single volume The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge By Vernor Vinge Tor Books Hardcover, Dec. 2001 416 pages MSRP: $27.95 ISBN: 0-312-87373-5 Review by D. Douglas Fratz he Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge includes all but two of the short science-fiction stories of one of the field's most innovative hard SF authors. The collection features 17 stories from the beginning of Vinge's career in the mid-1960s to date, including one original story. Vinge is a computer scientist, and many of these stories show his interest in computers and the machine-mind interface. "The Accomplice" may be the earliest story involving computer-generated animated movies, and "Bookworm, Run!" involves a chimpanzee with a high-speed mental link to a massive computer database. The artifact in "Gemstone" is able to interface with human minds as well, and "Win a Nobel Prize" is a vignette about a newly developed mind-machine interface. "The Long Shot" has a bio-computer-controlled seed-ship sent on a 10,000-year voyage to colonize another planet. The new story, "Fast Times at Fairmont High," involves eighth-graders doing their school projects in a near future where everyone lives in a wireless-direct-mind-link, networked, sensory-enhanced world.

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67. Piaw's Blog: Review: Rainbow's End, By Vernor Vinge Review Rainbow s End, by vernor vinge. After winning last year s best fiction, I looked forward to a repeat performance in vinge s latest novel. http://piaw.blogspot.com/2006/12/review-rainbows-end-by-vernor-vinge.html

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=4003618"); Piaw's Blog Sunday, December 17, 2006 Review: Rainbow's End, by Vernor Vinge After winning last year's best fiction , I looked forward to a repeat performance in Vinge's latest novel. Rainbow's End follows the story of Robert Gu, a poet who is pulled back from the ravages of Alzheimer's only to discover his talent with words gone, replaced by a passion for engineering. If that was the main plot of the book, it would innovative and a departure for him, but of course, that's not it. The primary plot revolves around YGBM (You-Gotta-Believe-Me) technology: an infection and a trigger so subtle that people don't even know that their behavior's being manipulated. The technology in the book isn't unbelievable, but unfortunately there are still a few plot holes big enough to drive a truck through. For instance, one plot point revolves around a corporation's attempt to scan books by putting them through a high speed shredder. Given that non-destructive scanning methods exist, it seems that this sort of technology would get the cold shoulder from University libraries, so my assumption is that Vernor Vinge didn't get along with the librarian at UCSD. There's a little attempt to put in some character development in the novel, but nevetheless, I wouldn't read this book for any of that. The vision of technologies is interesting, but about halfway through the book after you've gotten sated, and you'll wish for the conclusion to happen quickly. It's exciting enough for a movie, but perhaps nothing could live up to the build up that had leads to it.

68. Pozorblog Virtual Citizenship, Part VII Vernor Vinge Virtual Citizenship, Part VII vernor vinge. vernor vinge, People Power in the Future . No one knows the future, so scenarios are much preferred to http://www.pozorblog.com/2007/11/virtual-citiz-6.html

69. "The Cookie Monster" By Vernor Vinge The Cookie Monster. vernor vinge. Illustration by Broeck Steadman. Man is the timebinding animal. But in the future, that simple statement may http://www.analogsf.com/0310/cookie.shtml

Analog and Asimov's collections are now available at AUDIBLE.COM Key Word Search: Analog Science Fiction Analog is now available in electronic formats at The Cookie Monster Vernor Vinge Illustration by Broeck Steadman Man is "the time-binding animal." But in the future, that simple statement may take on meanings that Korzybski never imagined. . . . "So how do you like the new job?" Dixie Mae looked up from her keyboard and spotted a pimply face peering at her from over the cubicle partition. "It beats flipping burgers, Victor," she said. Victor bounced up so his whole face was visible. "Yeah? It’s going to get old awfully fast." Actually, Dixie Mae felt the same way. But doing customer support at Lotsa-Tech was a real job, a foot in the door at the biggest high-tech company in the world. "Gimme a break, Victor! This is our first day." Well, it was the first day not counting the six days of product familiarization classes. "If you can’t take this, you’ve got the attention span of a cricket." "That’s a mark of intelligence, Dixie Mae. I’m smart enough to know what’s not worth the attention of a first-rate creative mind."

70. Vernor Vinge Rainbows End Reviewed By Rick Kleffel Prepare to experience intellectual thrills and ideadriven chills when you pick up vernor vinge s Rainbows End . In the fiery first pages, vinge, http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/2006/vinge-rainbows_end.htm

Agony Column Home Agony Column Review Archive Rainbows End Vernor Vinge Tor / Tom Doherty Associates US Hardcover First Edition ISBN 0-312-85684-9 Publication Date: 05-30-2006 368 Pages; $25.95 Date Reviewed: 06-05-06 REFERENCES COLUMNS Science Fiction Literature has the rather peculiar potential to thrill the reader. But what is meant by that verb changes depending on the book. We typically want to call lightweight, action-packed books that evoke this emotion "thrillers" and generally dismiss them as disposable. But one can be as thrilled by a work of non-fiction as one might be by a tale of toe-tapping terror. Imagine the emotional response of those who first picked up The Origin of Species, or even The Elements of Style. In fact, both works could be justly deemed thrilling to readers picking them up now, even with years of familiarity behind them. One need not read an action-packed punch-out to experience literary thrills. Ideas in literature are far more thrilling than action. Prepare to experience intellectual thrills and idea-driven chills when you pick up Vernor Vinge's 'Rainbows End'. In the fiery first pages, Vinge, a mathematician, will send your sense of wonder through the roof, with a curiously compelling mix of probability and data trawling. It's 2025, and the data wonks have discovered some ominous facts buried in the blizzard of bits. Someone has put together disparate pieces of technology in a manner that will curl your toes with terror. Not a single character is harmed in the process and in fact, none are even really revealed. But with the sleight of hand available to the skilled science fiction writer, Vinge sets up a premise that makes you pray that the wrong people don't decide to read this book. Science fiction is often described as a literature of ideas, and Vinge proves that ideas are every bit as thrilling as gunplay. Indeed, more so.

71. Ted Shelton: Half Way To Vernor Vinge's Singularity vernor vinge, a faculty member of the San Diego State University department of Mathematical Sciences is also a science fiction author. http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/2007/05/half-way-to-vernor-vinges-singularity.htm

@import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=1033750"); Ted Shelton Early adopter, entrepreneur interested in software, the Internet, mobile telephony and computing, and VoIP. Founder or senior management with The Personal Bee (acquired by Technorati), Orb Networks, CallTrex, Borland (BORL), The Dr. Spock Company, Neta4, WhoWhere? (acquired by Lycos), CMP Media, and IT Solutions. Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Half way to Vernor Vinge's Singularity In 1993 Vernor Vinge wrote Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. He didn't write this in a science fiction novel. This was not hyperbole. Vernor Vinge, a faculty member of the San Diego State University department of Mathematical Sciences is also a science fiction author. But his goal, in the non-fiction essay " The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era ," was to outline what he calls "The Singularity" defined as a course of events that would bring the human race to "...a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules." We are now almost to the halfway point of his 30 year prediction. With 15 years behind us and 15 years to go, are we still enroute to the Singularity?

72. Raphaël’s Last Minutes » Blog Archive » Vernor Vinge Using GIMP Following the link from Luis’ blog, I discovered the minisite about vernor vinge’s novel “Rainbows End” (winner of the 2007 Hugo Award). http://blogs.gnome.org/raphael/2007/11/29/vernor-vinge-using-gimp/

Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Cyclomatic complexity in GIMP code Vernor Vinge using GIMP Following the link from , I discovered the mini-site about Vernor Vinge Outer This is not entirely surprising, considering that he is a friend of Free Software and even a member of the award committee for the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software . But still, it is nice to see a well-known SF author who is also a GIMP user. As a GIMP developer and SF fan, this made me happy. I doubt that Vernor Vinge will ever read this blog, but for the next illustrations I would recommend using Inkscape for the line art and text. This would lead to better results than using GIMP alone. This entry was posted on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 17:57 UTC and is filed under GIMP . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. Comments are closed. Hosted by GNOME Blogs . Built on WordPress Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) Bad Behavior has blocked access attempts in the last 7 days.

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74. Literature-Map: Vernor Vinge What else do readers of vernor vinge read? What else do readers of vernor vinge read? The closer two writers are, the more likely someone will like both http://www.literature-map.com/vernor vinge.html

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75. Vernor Vinge | Jef's Web Files vernor vinge won the 2002 sciencefiction Hugo award in the Novella category for his short story, Fast Times at Fairmont High (from The Collected Stories http://www.jefallbright.net/taxonomy/term/250

@import "misc/drupal.css"; @import "modules/sidecontent/sidecontent.css"; @import "themes/jwftheme/style.css"; home misc about empathy ... extropy Vernor Vinge Parent categories: Entities Related categories: Favorite books Futurology Singularity Web links: Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge About Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge Name: Vernor Vinge URL: http://www.jefallbright.net/node.php?id=172 Categories: Singularity Vernor Vinge Referred: Singularity Vernor Vinge visit Vernor Vinge read more Vernor Vinge won the 2002 science-fiction Hugo award in the Novella category for his short story, "Fast Times at Fairmont High" (from The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge, Tor, 2001). The award was presented September 1 at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in San Jose, CA. Fast Times takes place in a near future in which everyone lives in a ubiquitous, wireless, networked world using wearable computers and contacts or glasses on which computer graphics are projected to create an augmented reality. Vernor Vinge Virtual Reality login or register read more Singularity Chat with Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge recently discussed the singularity via live public chat. A transcript is

76. Christian Simms’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Vernor Vinge’s Technolog vernor vinge is one of my favorite scifi authors. I just read his new book, Rainbows End, and I highly recommend it. It’s set in the near term future http://csimms.botonomy.com/2006/07/19/vernor-vinges-technology-predictions-in-ra

How to Rotate Apache Logfiles ProjectPipe now has web services Vernor Vinge is one of my favorite sci-fi authors. I just read his new book, Rainbows End 50 min podcast available technology spoilers Affiliances - These are some kind of part-time work / large-scale special purpose corporations. I think the great idea here is that with the right software and network infrastructure, it should be possible to break down problems into arbitrarily small sub-problems which can be outsourced to other people anyplace in the world. Belief Circles - This is directed online communities on steroids. This is when online communities which have a common belief system (say fans of Harry Potter, Trekkies, etc.) spend so much time together online that they are able to accomplish things in the real world too. SHE (Secure Hardware Environment) - Following the trends of many modern governments to control encryption and other advanced or threatening technologies, the ultimate dream of government control freaks is that all computing hardware must be regulated by the government. And this government regulation requires that the lowest level computing infrastructure gives back door access to the government to everything that takes place in computers. Localizers - Imagine very cheap wireless sensing machines the size of a grain of sand (something like this Contact lens overlays - The idea is that you can change what you see through your eyes with your contact lens (but in his podcast he says he might change it to retinal implants). Instead of painting your house, just have everyone in your family use the same color overlay!

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