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Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light was a fascinating novel about accelerationist ideas.
by rgrieselhuber 7y ago
Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light was a fascinating novel about accelerationist ideas.
- PhasmaFelis 7y ago"Accelerationism" in Lord of Light meant making technology, especially life-extension technology, available to the masses instead of restricting it to the elites (who had used Sufficiently Advanced Technology to gain superpowers and set themselves up as Hindu gods, controlling the masses by restricting reincarnation to those who toed the line). It had little to do with the philosophy of the same name described here.
- rgrieselhuber 7y agoDepends on your viewpoint.