[ExI] Accelerando

[jameschoate at austin.rr.com]

I'd strongly suggest along with that the Cypherpunks mailing list, if you can get over the space aliens eating your drugs that is.

---- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote: 
> On 3/1/2010 9:42 PM, Keith Henson wrote:
> 
> > If anyone wants to read a story that was written around the ideas that
> > floated across the Extropy list in those days, try Acclerando by
> > Charles Stross.  It's free on the net, but you might want hard copy as
> > well.
> 
> I've been reluctant to mention this, but in that context (a good 
> recommendation from Keith!) I might as well: if anyone wants to get 
> something of the flavor of the ideas and approaches buzzing on the list 
> in the mid-'90s, read my book THE SPIKE. The trouble is that these once 
> hair-raising ideas are now commonplace, some decade and a half later 
> (although I had to omit some of the more difficult material because I 
> was aiming at a general Wired-ish audience).
> 
> Perhaps one reason the idea flux seems a bit lacklustre now is that 
> people who weren't there then inevitably rehash many of the same ideas, 
> which are still somewhat novel if you're 20 or younger, and this is not 
> so enthralling for the old timers. The Swobe cascade would also have 
> been laughed off the list fairly quickly back then; 'gene would have 
> been scathing in his brilliantly condensed way.
> 
> Still, I'm sure there are new ideas waiting to be explored, or old ideas 
> waiting to be examined in depth--but it's not obvious what they are. 
> (I'm waiting eagerly for Keith to tell us what his current idea for 
> cheap energy is.)
> 
> Damien Broderick
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