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I wrote Accelerando from 1998-2004. That's a third of a lifetime ago. It's normal to slow down as you grow older!

It's amazing to come to the comments and find the author himself here. Thanks for writing Accelerando, I enjoyed the book. It really made me think about the future differently.

Must be wild watching the overton window pass you in the fast lane.

We all get there eventually. Now get off my lawn you little hooligan, I want no more japes or knavery here.

I'm convinced that it happens proportionally to information transfer. What once took 10 years to slowly detect now takes about 1 year to realize you don't want the new [thing] because you're feeling a sense of deja vu.

In 15 years, it'll be a 3-month endeavor unless we see the human limits of perceptual processing hit a hard wall. I liken it to how memory used to be expensive and engineers cheap, and it's now the other way around.

Through your writings, you helped create a new age religion of people who worship non-linear technological progress. (Though the transhumanism movement seems to be less active as of late)

Its going to be a wild ride! Hopefully it doesn't result in anything too crazy going on, I'd hate to involuntarily grow a new limb.

Related, your books, and others in the genre, helped bring about my own acceptance of people's differences. I realized that if I had no objection to a future where people modified their own DNA, then it followed that I should have no objection to people dying their hair, getting crazy tattoos, or making any alterations to their body that they so choose. Transhumanist literature was the final stepping stone that let me step back from the preconceived notions of ethics and morals that society had placed upon me and do a thorough analyze and decide what I wanted to keep versus discard.

Thank you for writing Accelerando.

I recently read glass house and just started accelerando, great work!

If I may suggest dabbling in the BLIT short stories that the Langford fractal mentioned in the fifth decade of the century of wonders.

  https://ansible.uk/writing/t3_002.html
  http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
  https://www.nature.com/articles/44964
  https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of-darkness/

And following up from Glasshouse with Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams where the exploration of what could have been without the Vile Offspring and computers were harnessed without a singularity... but "tools" such as Curious Yellow are a part of the nightmare scenarios in the possibilities of war.

What do you think about memes a la. Dawkins, Dennett, Blackmore, et al?

Wow! I just stumbled across your novels a month ago (recommendation by my library) and am currently reading my 4th novel of yours. Small world! Thanks for chiming in.

Would have loved to read more in this universe. Like, what is economics 2.0? What were the Vile Offspring like?

But really, accelerando was a great book, wish there was more in the genre but maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough.

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