Jesus, just found out on Twtter - and confirmed on Wikipedia - that Vernor Vinge is dead. Vinge, as is well known, popularized the notion of the Singularity
Ah, that's a shame. We can put a notice in the next Updates page; Vinge's stories are one of the main inspirations for OA.
That is sad and agreed a mention on the next Updates page would be appropriate.
Vinge's Marooned in Realtime introduced me to the idea of the Singularity and his writings on the subject (particularly his early paper on it) should be considered a must-read by anyone interested in it.
Todd
Yeah, it's incredibly upsetting. Maybe it would be nice to do up a short tribute for him - nothing much, maybe a hab named after him