Accelerando is freely downloadable. Google it. (It's a legit copy, not pirated.) It's not high art. Like most Stross books, the writing is uneven and the chara

Accelerando is freely downloadable. Google it. (It's a legit copy, not pirated.) It's not high art. Like most Stross books, the writing is uneven and the character development is close to nil. But the ideas are breathtaking, and make the book worth a look. I meant, by the way, that diaspora might provide a good platform on which to build reputation, and OpenID might provide the means to uniquely identify a single human so that a reputation can follow him or her around. But I don't know much about either project, so I could be wrong.