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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
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Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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