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A review by rossbm
Accelerando by Charles Stross
3.0
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Starts off around 2014 or so. About a Mannfred, a technophile/futurist who will be the main character (plenty of other important ones) throughout the decades as technology accelerates at an exponential rate and something like the "singularity" takes place. Weird AI creatures with godlike powers spawn.
In the first few pages, Mannfred helps lobsters whose brains have been uploaded into a computer escape. The lobsters speak broken English because they escaped by hacking a Russian Windows usernet group, and cobbled together their own translator. It's that kind of book.
What did I think?
This was a reread of a book I originally read in 2010 or so. I liked it, but less that I originally did. I guess it is kind of "hard" science fiction book, but it's hard to take the idea of technology advancing so rapidly seriously. Also, things basically become magic once tech advances far enough. Don't like this kind of genre as much as I used to. Character pretty flat.
Some interesting ideas though. The thought of companies evolving into self aware AI is interesting.
Starts off around 2014 or so. About a Mannfred, a technophile/futurist who will be the main character (plenty of other important ones) throughout the decades as technology accelerates at an exponential rate and something like the "singularity" takes place. Weird AI creatures with godlike powers spawn.
In the first few pages, Mannfred helps lobsters whose brains have been uploaded into a computer escape. The lobsters speak broken English because they escaped by hacking a Russian Windows usernet group, and cobbled together their own translator. It's that kind of book.
What did I think?
This was a reread of a book I originally read in 2010 or so. I liked it, but less that I originally did. I guess it is kind of "hard" science fiction book, but it's hard to take the idea of technology advancing so rapidly seriously. Also, things basically become magic once tech advances far enough. Don't like this kind of genre as much as I used to. Character pretty flat.
Some interesting ideas though. The thought of companies evolving into self aware AI is interesting.