Rev. Dr. Sir Wayne Murillo III reviewed Accelerando by Charles Stross
Review of 'Accelerando' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
One of the primary reasons I read is to answer the question "How could life be different?" Stross (@cstross) answers this question with the kind of depth and world building that I appreciate.
In music, an accelerando is a slow increase in the tempo. Stross' Accelerando explores the impact of Moore's Law[1] on human society as it reaches the singularity[2]. Skipping from the simple, computer tools humans use to speed their thinking to uploading human of minds, and finally to massive Matrioshka brains[3] that gave birth to a new post-human organism. Stross explores human culture's growth through the harnessing of power on the Kardashev scale[4], growth in capitalist economics in Capitalism 2.0, and growth in legal structures as humans try to understand the legal rights of an uploaded mind. Delightfully satirical, several of Stross' characters generate corporations and then enslave themselves to their own corporations. Still further, corporations become sentient …
One of the primary reasons I read is to answer the question "How could life be different?" Stross (@cstross) answers this question with the kind of depth and world building that I appreciate.
In music, an accelerando is a slow increase in the tempo. Stross' Accelerando explores the impact of Moore's Law[1] on human society as it reaches the singularity[2]. Skipping from the simple, computer tools humans use to speed their thinking to uploading human of minds, and finally to massive Matrioshka brains[3] that gave birth to a new post-human organism. Stross explores human culture's growth through the harnessing of power on the Kardashev scale[4], growth in capitalist economics in Capitalism 2.0, and growth in legal structures as humans try to understand the legal rights of an uploaded mind. Delightfully satirical, several of Stross' characters generate corporations and then enslave themselves to their own corporations. Still further, corporations become sentient algorithms.
Stross' scope, depth, and satire in Accelerando make this book (free) worth your time: www.accelerando.org/2005/06/28/
For a more complete analysis, read this: www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=450
[1]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
[2]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
[3]www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A
[4]www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFK5_Nx9xY