Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination

Re:Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke ... by endtime on Sunday April 05, 2009 @05:58PM (#547808)

I've read about half that list, and half of what remains is on my list. But it's a pity Charles Stross's Accelerando isn't on there. You can read it online for free here: http://www.accelerando.org/book/.

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Re:Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke ... by jodrellblank on Sunday April 05, 2009 @06:45PM (#547860)

Don't, though, it will just make you miserable.

(Do, but be prepared for a very dystopian and worryingly likely feeling future)

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Re:Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke ... by dejb on Sunday April 05, 2009 @08:06PM (#547951)

Miserable? It had the opposition effect on me. I found it inspiring. What a fantastic future if we can develop that sort of technology. Of course a novel has to have a few things go wrong to make a compelling story but I don't see them as being inherent in the possibilities being presented.

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Re:Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke ... by endtime on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:16AM (#548603)

I'm just looking forward to conversations with sentient networks of Russian lobster brains.

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