I wish he had written more, goodbye to a brilliant original thinker #scifi
Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79 β’ The Register
RIP Vernor Vinge, imaginer of cyberspace and The Singularity
CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant
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