Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and ‘The Singularity’, passes at 79

Obituary Science fiction author and academic Vernor Vinge has passed away, aged 79. Vinge is credited as the first author to describe an immersive cyberspace, which he outlined in his 1979 novella True Names – five years before William Gibson’s Neuromancer brought the idea to the mainstream.…#vernorvinge #williamgibsons #neuromancer #vinge #otherplane #warlocks #suffice #scifi #compsci #singularity
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