[Gllug] Story: open source evolutionary development tool

[Tethys]

Nix writes:

> Contains the first description of the Singularity in published
> fiction that I know of (unsurprisingly, since I think this novel
> is the first place Vinge explicitly described it; the paper on the
> Singularity scattered around the net is from six or seven years
> later).

Indeed. "Marooned in realtime" is from 1986, while his singularity paper
didn't appear until 1993.

	http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html

Vinge is one of my favourite authors of all time. I haven't yet read any
of his work that I didn't like, and can highly recommend him to anyone
even remotely interested in SF.

Tet
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