Sneak Preview Of Vernor Vinge's Next Book

orac2 writes "The current issue of IEEE Spectrum Magazine is running a special report titled Sensor Nation, about the technology and social issues involved with the rising tide of ubiquitous surveillance and analysis. One of the articles is a short story by Vernor Vinge about what kind of future we could end up living in, titled Synthetic Serendipity. The story is actually adapted from the book Vinge is currently working on, called Rainbows End (and for the grammar nazis, that's right, there's no apostrophe at the end of 'Rainbows.') ObPlug: I'll be talking at The 5th HOPE in New York on Saturday at 4pm in Area B, and I'll bring along a few issues for any interested slashdotters."

It's not the grammar nazi you should worry about.

[bravehamster]

It's the spelling nazi that will get you in the rear. SNEAK, not SNEEK.

We trust you have learned your lesson this time, no? Just be grateful that the "Lose, not Loose" guy is out of town.

hey...

[kirun]

... its spelled "grammer nazi's"

Re:I remain: Unafraid, Undeterred.

[Cat_Byte]

There are cameras covering every inch of the city I walk in.

They saw that? *covers privates*

Grammar nazi

[kelzer]

. . . called Rainbows End (and for the grammar nazis, that's right, there's no apostrophe at the end of 'Rainbows.')

That should be "Nazi", not "nazi".

Sincerely,

A capitalization Nazi.

Re:Grammar nazi

[gilroy]

Blockquoth the poster:

That should be "Nazi", not "nazi".

Sincerely,

A capitalization Nazi.

Nah, the term went generic and they lost that trademark. It's like "kleenex" and "xerox". :)

(More sadly, perhaps this isn't so far from the truth.)

Re:And now we know...

[Mr. Neutron]

Deanna: "I sense... a feeling of smugness. Perhaps the parent poster is proud of himself, or confident in his assertions."

Re:technological singularity

[Lord Omlette]

Now we have Google. What's coming next?

Lots and lots and lots of websites hawking prescription drugs w/out the prescriptions.