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My memory could be failing me, but I was reading about the singularity in Omni magazine in grade school, and I graduated in 1992.

• Wildgoose 4y ago
  I read it as well, but I think it was much earlier than that - some time in the early 1980s.
• o_nate 4y ago
  According to Wikipedia, Vinge penned an op-ed in the January 1983 issue of Omni laying out his vision of the singularity (which was later expanded in the 1993 linked essay).