Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon The Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999) and Rainbows End (2006), his Hugo Award-winning novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004), as well as for his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences.
Once in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate predictor, but itself the locus for new discoveries and development. True Names by Vernor Vinge, first published in 1981, is such a work. Here is a feast of articles by computer scientists and journalists on the cutting edge of the field, writing about innovations and developments of the Internet, including, among others: Danny Hillis: Founder of thinking machines and the first Disney Fellow. Timothy C. May: former chief scientist at Intel--a major insider in the field of computers and technology. Marvin Minsky: Cofounder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer: Codevelopers of habitat, the first real computer interactive environment. Mark Pesce: Cocreator of VRML and the author of the "Playful World: How Technology Transforms Our Imagination." Richard M. Stallman: Research affiliate with MIT; the founder of the Free Software Movement.
回到到小说的本身,在原著发表的39年后阅读《真名实姓》,仍然会被作者描述的赛博空间和虚拟现实所震撼,在这一刻似乎《黑客帝国》就如同过家家一样。 小说中描述的大部分场景似乎已经实现,《玩家一号》可能是我们初步能达成的理想形态,然后才可能是《真名实姓》。不过《玩家...
評分《真名实姓》是那种被提醒了创作年代,读者才会“哇!”的小说。 设定上,和现实撞车;情节上,又一板一眼,看进度条就知道会发生什么。虽然结尾力度不如中间的高潮,但这并非作者有意引人寻味,而是他本就只写到中间,又接受建议,续了后文。因此,在《真名实姓》与《神经漫游...
評分我记得我有一次读过一个微软的高级计算机科学家对《真名实姓》的评论:他说,他80年进CMU读计算机专业的时候,没有人知道网络是什么。他们的教授给他们开了一个计算机专业的必读书单,前几条里就有《真名实姓》。在读完这篇小说之后,他就知道了他未来应该努力的方向。 理论上...
評分《真名实姓》是那种被提醒了创作年代,读者才会“哇!”的小说。 设定上,和现实撞车;情节上,又一板一眼,看进度条就知道会发生什么。虽然结尾力度不如中间的高潮,但这并非作者有意引人寻味,而是他本就只写到中间,又接受建议,续了后文。因此,在《真名实姓》与《神经漫游...
評分我记得我有一次读过一个微软的高级计算机科学家对《真名实姓》的评论:他说,他80年进CMU读计算机专业的时候,没有人知道网络是什么。他们的教授给他们开了一个计算机专业的必读书单,前几条里就有《真名实姓》。在读完这篇小说之后,他就知道了他未来应该努力的方向。 理论上...
Vinge不愧為大師,巫術與網絡的比喻大概隻有他想得齣來
评分不打五星,隻是因為還有更好的,否則不知道該打幾分瞭~考慮到寫書的年代,隻能說太厲害瞭!
评分現在看來已經有很多賽博朋剋的模仿者們做的更好瞭,但在上世紀八十年代寫齣該作品,真是牛
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