Four stars.
Stross’s Accelerando is perhaps my favorite book of his so far. I like his writing, the ideas that he sprinkles along the way.
In Singularity Sky, for example, that the economic takeover of a planet begins with a rainfall of portable telephones from the sky, and that those who pick them up are asked to “Entertain us! Tell us a story!” And the surprises continue to develop from there.
He throws in ideas like, nano-machines that can manufacture goods from a ‘storage locker’ of solid metal, on demand as molecules, textiles, objects, working machines are programmed and created upon request. What would that look like at personal scale? within a family? at city scale? nation scale? planetary scale? Is it the result of, or the cause of, revolution?
CMIO’s take: what are you reading? Reading is the ultimate form of empathy, which is the root of compassion, which is the root of communication, which is the root of community and teamwork. We can all read more.
