When reading this for first time (like two years ago) it struck me how many issues of accelerando world we actually have right now in ours. In fiction they are just hyperboled to extreme (sometimes for comedic appeal).
> one technique that suited me well back then was to take a fire-hose of ideas and spray them at the reader until they drowned. Nothing gives you a sense of an immersive future like having the entire world dumped on your head simultaneously, after all.
> [...]
> Now we are living in 2018, round the time I envisaged [the first chapter of Accelerando] taking place when I was writing that novelette, and the joke's on me: reality is outstripping my own ability to keep coming up with insane shit to provide texture to my fiction.
BlueTemplar|1 year ago
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> one technique that suited me well back then was to take a fire-hose of ideas and spray them at the reader until they drowned. Nothing gives you a sense of an immersive future like having the entire world dumped on your head simultaneously, after all.
> [...]
> Now we are living in 2018, round the time I envisaged [the first chapter of Accelerando] taking place when I was writing that novelette, and the joke's on me: reality is outstripping my own ability to keep coming up with insane shit to provide texture to my fiction.
> [...]
See also :
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/04/reality...
And maybe :
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/08/dead-pl...