Accelerando (2005)

Re:Accelerando (2005) by hyperkewb on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:51PM (#33824816)

This is one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time. The explorations into autonomous corporations comprised primarily from software as some of the main economic and legal actors was quite interesting.

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Re:Accelerando (2005) by PhasmaFelis on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:35PM (#33825197)

I still think about the bit where they weaponized a sentient alien pyramid scheme.

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Re:Accelerando (2005) by Abekkus on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:13PM (#33825862)

And then we got bitcoin. When you read good satire, bet on the world falling for it in the future.

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Re:Accelerando (2005) by roughly on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:18PM (#33826326)

I was going to say - that was the part of the book that felt the least plausible when I first read it, but by god, here we are.

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Re:Accelerando (2005) by ineedasername on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:02PM (#33826609)

IIRC the weaponized sentient pyramid scheme was weaponized against what, if we’re following the book as a map, is today the crypto economy (Economics 2.0 in the book)

Part of the book also fall together nicely if you realize that IRL Stross is a cat person.

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Re:Accelerando (2005) by nicopappl on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:23AM (#33828459)

Consider reading Existence by David Brin. The book premise is the first alien contact being a pyramid scheme.

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