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

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.