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I read Accelerando recently and it's great. Hard to believe that it was written in 2005 given the one scene where the main character is walking around generati
by alexpotato 3y ago
I read Accelerando recently and it's great.
Hard to believe that it was written in 2005 given the one scene where the main character is walking around generating multiple interlocking crypto contracts to store money for his daughter.
- gpderetta 3y agoYes, very prescient. Also the VR glasses with embedded AI and independent subagents seems almost something that you could build today.
- cstross 3y agoIt was published in 2005 -- actually I wrote the 9 novelettes that went into it from 1998-2003 (they were originally published in Asimov's SF magazine from 2002-2004 before I assembled and rewrote them to make the book).
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoBlew my mind in the best way. Thank you. There's a line in there that feels like it could pop up in a permutation city sequel: > ... running a timing channel attack on the computational ultrastructure of spacetime itself, trying to break through to whatever's underneath... Does that idea come up anywhere else in your work? If so, I'd go read it.
- shabble 3y agoScratch Monkey may have some vague notions along those lines, if I remember rightly: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/monkey/index.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/monkey/index.html
- alexpotato 3y agoNot going to lie, getting a comment from THE AUTHOR of a book I greatly enjoyed is now one of the highlights of my 10+ years of being on HN! I should add: every time I hear the phrase "state vector" I think of Accelerando.
- yboris 3y agoThank you for your work! Last time I praised Accelerando on HN you commented that I should read The Rapture of the Nerds. I read it shortly after and loved it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapture_of_the_Nerds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapture_of_the_Nerds