Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer, professor, and one of the first prominent thinkers to conceptualize the concepts of a “Technological Singularity” and cyberspace, has died at the age of 79. News of his passing on March 20 was confirmed through a Facebook post from author and friend David Brin, citing complications from Parkinson’s Disease.
How life on Earth progressed from there was anyone’s guess—something plenty of Vinge-inspired writers have since attempted. John Scalzi, bestselling sci-fi author of the Old Man’s War series, wrote in a blog post on Thursday that Vinge’s singularity theory in now so ubiquitous within science fiction and the tech industry that “it doesn’t feel like it has a progenitor, and that it just existed ambiently.” “That’s a hell of a thing to have contributed to the world,” he continued.
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