Miscellaneous nonfiction, and a bibliography
From 1983: "First Word", OpEd piece in
Omni
magazine, January, 1983
My first in-print fling at the Singularity.
From 1993:
The Coming Technological Singularity
Presentation at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, 30-31 March 1993.
I am told that this essay has been translated into Belorussian at
http://webhostinggeeks.com/science/singularity-be
From 1996:
Nature, Bloody in Tooth and Claw?
Essay for the 1996 British National Science Fiction Convention (Evolution).
From 2007:
What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
Talk given for the Long Now Foundation
From 2010:
Technology and New Populisms
Talk given at
C5 2010
From 2010:
Species of Mind
Talk given at
IAAI-10
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Asteroid Satellites and Tidal Moraines
Presentation at the 1995 MATLAB Conference, 16-18 October, 1995, Cambridge, MA.
The Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase (http://www.isfdb.org/) has a
bibliography of my science fiction
.
-- Vernor Vinge
Last modified: 12 June 2011