Rainbows End Resources

The Science Fiction Encyclopedia is a great place to start, since they list the author's works and have links to other authors and themes. This entry gives a nice summary of Vinge: "while risking the worst of genre sillinesses, [he] remains dangerously acute."

The Internet Speculative Fiction Database page for Vinge has a useful bibliography of his work.

Technovelgy tracks inventions in various science fiction works.

Here's an article from 2006 about Vinge's take on surveillance and how computers make it easier.

And here's an essay by Vinge from Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Spectrum magazine on the singularity, with multiple notes on possible singularities.

A discussion of Vinge, the singularity, and posthumanism—in the New York Times.

An article from 2001 about Vinge and his interest in the future. (Bonus: he talks about writing a story about a man healing from Alzheimer's.)

Want to read Vinge's own words on the Singularity? Here's an essay on it.

An interview with Vinge at Reason, where he discusses the singularity and Rainbows End. How does he feel about science fiction? "I think science fiction can have all the power of conventional literature, but with the added potential for providing us with vivid, emotionally grounded insights into the future and into alternative scenarios."

A short interview with Vernor Vinge, including discussion of the singularity (of course).

A longer interview with Vinge at Wired magazine; includes an audio interview.

In this video, Vinge describes his thoughts about what the future holds. Also, he expresses shock over the fact that Wikipedia works, which is pretty cute.

If you're tired of hearing Vinge talk about the Singularity, here's a discussion with Vinge and a bunch of other people on the Singularity.

If all this Singularity talk seems a little abstract, you can check out this video of Vinge talking about "spimes." (Which are objects that are always networked. Yeah, it makes more sense when Vinge talks about it.)

Did you know there's an Augmented Reality Conference? SF author and guy-interested-in-the-future Bruce Sterling gave the keynote address in 2013 that deals with many of the issues in Rainbows End.

A discussion with Vernor Vinge on future technology.

A 2006 discussion with Vinge and Cory Doctorow about how technology impacts human beings.

In this interview, Vinge talks about something that might interest you: how future tech will affect education.

Fifty shades of lavender.

Look at that sly smile.

In the future, we'll all be wearing these bad boys.