Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge was an American science fiction writer, mathematician and computer scientist who introduced the idea of the technological singularity.
Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) was an American science fiction author, mathematician and computer scientist. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University and won several Hugo Awards, including one for his novel A Fire Upon the Deep.
In his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity," he argued that the creation of greater-than-human intelligence would make technological progress accelerate beyond prediction, a scenario he called the technological singularity.
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