Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79

CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant

Vinge's cyberspace – which he termed the"Other Plane" – was accessible by attaching electrodes to one's skull. Inhabitants referred to themselves as"Warlocks" and over the course of the novella illicitly accessed government databases.

In 1993 he penned delivered a conference paper titled"The coming technological singularity: How to survive in the post-human era" that predicted the following:

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