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A review by ponga
The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross
4.0
A more comedic take on the singularity as compared with Stross's more serious (but still fairly hysterical!) modern classic Accelerando. The breakneck pace of neologisms and sly asides is somewhat more moderated (or maybe I'm acclimatized). It's pretty much what it says in the title: of course the ascended dense-thinker clades swarming in a proto-Matryoshka brain, confusing the billion remaining future shocked naked apes with downloads of strange technologies and busily dismantling Jupiter for more computronium are still nerds at their non-beating non-hearts.
I had several laugh-out-loud moments reading the book, and overall enjoyed myself immensely. Of course, my shifting between phone, tablet and ereader places me bang in the middle of its primary audience. People who aren't familiar with Kurzweil, Gödel and the pages of Wired and slashdot seem to find it a bit heavier going.
I had several laugh-out-loud moments reading the book, and overall enjoyed myself immensely. Of course, my shifting between phone, tablet and ereader places me bang in the middle of its primary audience. People who aren't familiar with Kurzweil, Gödel and the pages of Wired and slashdot seem to find it a bit heavier going.