> [!abstract] > True Names is a 1981 science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge, a seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. It is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk. The story also contains elements of transhumanism. ("True Names", 2025). > [!quote] > "One book, picked up on a whim in a public library. Sixty-five words. Five seconds. My feeling at that moment is hard to describe; not wild enthusiasm, just a vast calm feeling of 'Yep. He's right. Well, now I know how I'll be spending the rest of my life.' I've been a Singularitarian ever since." (Yudkowsky, 2008). ## References - True Names. (2025, January 04). In *Wikipedia*. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=True_Names&oldid=1215339563 - Yudkowsky, E. S. (2008). *Books that changed my life*. https://web.archive.org/web/20081021204243/http://yudkowsky.net/obsolete/bookshelf.html ## Related - [[Singularitarianism]] - [[Technological singularity]] - [[Transhumanism]]