Vernor Vinge, science fiction writer and creator of the concept of the technological singularity, has died at the age of 79.

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Five Best: Science Fiction Selected by Ray Kurzweil, the author, most recently, of ‘The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge With AI.’ By Ray Kurzweil Share Resize ...

As a sci-fi author, Vinge won Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1993), A Deepness in the Sky (2000), and Rainbows End (2007). He also won Hugos for novellas Fast Times at Fairmont ...

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I felt like he was writing Science fiction from a new technological base. That is his imaginings were based on internet type stuff, and I loved the cute fun inside references to Henry at the Zoo ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Futurists have long debated the arrival of the singularity, when human and artificial intelligence will merge, a concept borrowed from the ...

Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time. From Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin to Star Wars – the list has ...

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Ray Kurzweil. Credit: Weinberg-Clark Photography In 2005, futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil popularized the term “the singularity” to capture the idea that man and machine will merge as the next ...

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