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This is one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time. The explorations into autonomous corporations comprised primarily from software as some of the main economic and legal actors was quite interesting.

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I still think about the bit where they weaponized a sentient alien pyramid scheme.

And then we got bitcoin. When you read good satire, bet on the world falling for it in the future.

I was going to say - that was the part of the book that felt the least plausible when I first read it, but by god, here we are.

IIRC the weaponized sentient pyramid scheme was weaponized against what, if we’re following the book as a map, is today the crypto economy (Economics 2.0 in the book)

Part of the book also fall together nicely if you realize that IRL Stross is a cat person.

Consider reading Existence by David Brin. The book premise is the first alien contact being a pyramid scheme.

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