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Sci-fi author Vernor Vinge, creator of the tech singularity concept, has died at age 79. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

No, that's my bad. For some reason I was also thinking of Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" and got the authors mixed up. XD