VERNOR, HE’S A DEAD MAN
In our current online environment swamped with XXX nudes in bio tweetbots, sci-fi author Vernor Vinge has proven a prescient voice. His novel True Names was written over forty years ago yet painted an early cyberspace landscape laden with pseudonymous hackers and trolls, and a couple years later coined “the Singularity” in reference to the rapid rise of AI. No words if he had a say in it ruining dead pool research. He was 79 and a unique for Bibliogryphon’s Bookworm Food.
Vernor Vinge
2 October 1944 – 20 March 2024, aged 79
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 + 👻 = 11 POINTS