Postsingular
A crazed computer industry billionaire and U.S. president form a partnership to transform the planet through sentient nanotechnology, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy.
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2recommend
6mentions
5people
2009–2024years
33% recommend50% neutral17% critical
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- I'll shout out his book Postsingular, which is a real head-trip and available under a Creative Commons license here: https://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/
- Everything from Vernor Vinge is top notch. Start with A Fire Upon the Deep. If you like it read the other two books of the trilogy. It's a space opera by degree of events but it never gets cheesy. The amount of ideas put into these books never cease to amaze me.
Rudy Rucker's Postsingular followed by Hylozoic are great books. It's a rather humorous view on postsingular way of life. It's hard to describe his books and Rucker's writing style is not everyone's cup of tea but William Gibson likes it.
Also if you haven't read anything from Michael Swanwick you should give his books a try. It's not strictly science fiction because he likes to slide into more psychedelic and surreal areas of fiction. But I consider that his charm. Start with The Iron Dragon's Daughter.
I also have to mention Cory Doctorow's Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom. I actually don't really like Doctorow's works. Some of them are boring. But this particular book is an exception and absolutely worth reading. A lot of interesting ideas are in play there including reputation based currency, eternal life (through ability to backup/restore body and memories) and extreme transhumanism.
- Or Rudy Rucker’s Postsingular, where the “orphidnet” utility fog enables universal perception/visualization.
- I believe I read a science fiction book around this topic. Postsingular by Rudy Rucker I believe, related to nanotechnology. Can't remember most of it, but delved a little into how it affects relationships re: every thing being visible always to everyone. Not sure I'd entirely recommend it, but still interesting to see the thoughts and outcomes others come up with in regard to these types of potential technological changes.
- I loved the beginning and then liked it less and less as it moves not into three future and becomes more fantastical. I eventually stopped reading. The same thing happened to me with Rudy Rucker's Postsingular.
- This is a bit off topic, but I related Avatar to Rudy Rucker's Postsingular. Same theme of technology becoming irrelevant when faced with superior natural/supernatural alternative, which I think reveals what we subconsciously desire, try and fail to create with technology.
Just like Postsingular made me wish someone would figure out how to strum the "lazy eight", Avatar left me wishing life on Earth came with an organic USB cable.
Sorry if there's a spoiler in there...
