True Names and Other Dangers by Vernor Vinge and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Vernor Steffen Vinge (/ ˈ v ɜːr n ər ˈ v ɪ n dʒ iː / (); born October 2, ) is an American science fiction author and retired professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State bltadwin.ru is the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and perhaps the first to present a fictional "cyberspace". [citation needed] He has won the. True Names Vernor Vinge Vernor Vinge is one of the masters of hard science fiction who has moved to the forefront of the field in recent years. He is also, of all hard SF writers, the one who has been often concerned over the years with computers and advances in computer technology. In contrast to William Gibson, who invented anFile Size: KB.
TRUE NAMES is probably the specific point at which Vinge went from being "a pretty decent SF author" to "hot shit". There were a few false steps still to be taken, and it took awhile for the rest of the world to notice, but with TRUE NAMES Vinge basically arrived. Afterword to Vernor Vinge's novel, "True Names". Marvin Minsky, October 1, (This web-version was considerably revised.) In real life, you often have to deal with things you don't completely understand. You drive a car, not knowing how its engine works. You ride as passenger in someone else's car, not knowing how that driver works. True Names and The Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier is an anthology of the True Names novella and several shorter articles by other technically-inclined folk. If you haven't read the original True Names, this book is worth it for that story alone. True Names and The Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier. author. Vernor Vinge; ed. by James Frenkel.
Vinge's True Names is published by Penguin with a collection of essays from a range of technology thinkers including - Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer who founded one of the first massive online multiplayer games, back when dial up bulletin boards were the bleeding edge. True Names is an influential Science Fiction Novella by Vernor Vinge about computer hackers who regularly meet in an open-ended on-line game called "The Other Plane". The hackers must keep their True Names—their "real world" identities—hidden, like wizards of lore, both to avoid detection by law enforcement ("the Great Enemy"), and to protect themselves from being hacked or blackmailed by others in the game. Before William Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" and, along with authors like Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson, forged our understanding of the virtual landscape, Hugo-winning Vinge (A Deepness in the Sky, , etc.) had presented the concept in the 30,word novella True Names. It sparked an immediate reaction, which has continued to this day, among A.I. researchers, hackers, techno-anarchists, and other computer cognoscenti.
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