Reviews
Accelerando (2005)
Creators |
Charles Stross (writer). |
Commentary |
“Economics 2.0”, with its hoarding of information for market value, resembles the City of Mind in Always Coming Home (1985) but is appropriately more diverse. In Stross’s version, 15-20 years after Le Guin, it takes so much matter and energy to build the processors and storage media that the inner planets are under way to total conversion by the 2070s:
The City of Mind seemed to have an extremely small footprint by comparison, despite a complete description of all matter from the subatomic upward being one of its goals. |