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Re:The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how sci... by PicassoCTs on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:02AM (#27928997)
Sorry, but Accelerando is horrible. I recommend Singularity Sky, the weird one, not watered down for the mainstream. The characters are flat, but the weirdness on route, is captured much better.
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Re:The Realism of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson on how sci... by fouc on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:06AM (#27930785)
I have a soft spot for Accelerando because it was my first encounter with the exo-cortex (or perhaps more accurately called cybernetics) concept, aka computers as an external brain. Also it was my first encounter with the concept of smart contracts, laws & corporations run purely as code.
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