Nick Arnett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM, David Hobby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> FYI, the long-awaited (by me, anyway!) Charles
>> Stross book event is up on the Crooked Timber
>> blog:
>> http://crookedtimber.org/
>>
>
> I just finished re-reading Accelerando... and I'm not sure if I managed to
> finish it the first time; a lot of second two-thirds seemed unfamiliar. I
> found myself wondering how anybody could write another book after that one,
> since that one seemed to try to cover just about the entire future.
Nick--
Why, by writing about a different future. : )
Stross says he's agnostic about the Singularity,
although it figures heavily in Accelerando.
Saturn's Children is set in a future where the
only way to implement artificial intelligence
was to emulate human intelligence--from neurons
up.
---David
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