Accelerando

Manfred Macx is an altruistic entrepreneur: his job is to make others rich. Connected to the constant flow of information that is the defining characteristic of the society of the near future, he extracts original ideas from it that can change the world, and often do. But Macx is something more: with his implants and his philosophy, he is two steps ahead of the technological wave. And he can see that the singularity is approaching. In the first half of the 21st century, the world convulses in the agony of a superlative birth: the moment is approaching when most processing power will be artificial, unborn, and then humanity will have become obsolete. In an era of cybernetic copies, total connectivity, artificial intelligences, collective minds, space travel at relativistic speeds, and the gradual conversion of the Solar System into computeronium, what can surprise us anymore? Only the arrival of an alien signal that might indicate the access route to the local space network node.