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The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.
Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber's son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity.
For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form...
- Format: MassMarketPaperback
- Author: Stross, Charles
- ISBN: 9780441014156
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 6.70 x 1.30
- Number Of Pages: 432
- Publication Year: 2006
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Foundation for the early 21st Century.
Evan D. - 3 years 1 month agoAccelerando is nine stories about the future of humanity, as our use and abuse of technology reaches a point of no return. It's built upon the theory of technological singularity, the point at which technology improves at an almost instantaneous rate. What sets "Accelerando" apart is that writer Charles Stross does not depict machines supplanting humanity; rather, our use of them becomes so ingrained that it is worth questioning whether or not humanity and technology are even separable. The stories start in a world much like our own, with each jumping successively farther into the future, closer to the singularity. "The Tourist," the third story of the collection, is easily one of the best 'near-future' science fiction I've read. It involves a man losing his entire personality when his iPhone-like device is stolen, and his adventure retrieving it. Keep in mind, this was written in the early two thousands, half a decade before Apple changed the mobile computing world. "Near-future" science fiction, indeed.
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