[ExI] Accelerando

[Stefano Vaj]

On 2 March 2010 05:17, 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).
>

Absolutely.

Personally I never liked much Accelerando.

Personally, I would consider it mostly as a "by-product" of the
transhumanist culture and language of the period...

I am not sure in English, but "vulgarisation" has two different meanings in
Italian or French.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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