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Show Notes for TWS081: On the Vinge of Speaking of Space Mistakes On the show this week: NASA vs the 13 year old German Speak Your Mind/Mind Your Speak Oregon FTW (For The Water) Hellth Stuff I didn't get to Last cup. This week's Challenge Question: Do you believe there was a somewhat advanced ancient island civilization (e.g. Mu, Atlantis, Rly'eh) that was swept away into the sea? Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to weirdshow[[at]]gmail.com, record your message via the MobaTalk client on the right hand side of Encaffeinated!, leave an answer on Facebook or call in at 206-203-2292.

Well it's about time the StarShipSofa came upon the UK SF magazine, Interzone. It is with great pleasure and fond memories that we hit this fantastic short story magazine. Blast Off. Check blog for army address to send books.

The science fiction podcast that we know and love, the good ship StarShipSofa, heads over to Mrs. Joan D Vinge this week. Once married to last week s author, Vernor Vinge, Joan D Vinge blazed across the skies with her novels, Cat's Paw, Snow Queen, and Summer Queen. In her own words, she once described herself as the token female writer for Analog. This writer is no token writer - winning award after award Joan D Vinge is up there with the greats and back on track with a new novel, Ladysmith.

Blasting off this week into a 2 part science fiction special, the StarShipSofa is proud to give you, the hottest property in SF literature at the moment. A man riding the wave of the Sci Fi Singularity. A man who owns the keys to that big ideas factory in the sky. Ladies and Gentleman, boy and girls, cats and dogs - we give you, Vernor Vinge. Blast Off. Essay by Vernor Vinge on The Singularity 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.

Interview with Vernor Vinge. We discuss what his definition of the Singularity; why he calls it the Singularity (mathematical and gravitational); the difficulty describing the possible changes brought about by the Singularity; analogies to the Singularity; Moore's law; increased computation; wireless networking technology; artificial intelligence; mainframe computers; personal computers; robots; networked embedded processors; distributed intelligence; Karl Schroeder and his book, Ventus; valiance; RFIDs (Radio Frequency IDentification); intelligence amplification; David Brin's neo neocortex; Whole Earth Review; Gregory Stock's book, Metaman; hard science fiction; Charles Stross and Ray Kurzweil writing about the Singularity; Greg Egan's book, Diaspora; the diffrence between the hard and soft take off of the Singularity; Mark Twain; humans and the animal kingdom; the buffalo analogy; Hans Moravec; Greb Bear's book, Blood Music; why a hard take off would be such an extreme event; exponential growth; the arms race analogy; has the Singularity become a curse for Vernor; his novella, Fast Times at Fairmont High and his next novel, Rainbows End; why his new novel takes place in the near future; cell phones; Starbucks' hot spots; his story "Synthetic Serendipity"; is their anything to be optimistic embedded technologies in regards to privacy; Martin J. Rees' book, Our Final Hour; watching China; David Brin's book, The Transparent Society; where his character Pham Nuwen came from and the books A Fire Upon The Deep and A Deepness in the Sky; does he miss teaching at San Diego State University; retiring from teaching to write full time; what he does when he's not writing. Special thanks to Patrick from Mysterious Galaxy Books for putting me in contact with Vernor. Featured song is "Possibly" by Johnny Isbell.