Postsingular

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• Nekorosu · Sep 15, 2013 · Recommends

  …If you like it read the other two books of the trilogy. It's a space opera by degree of events but it never gets cheesy. The amount of ideas put into these books never cease to amaze me. Rudy Rucker's Postsingular followed by Hylozoic are great books. It's a rather humorous view on postsingular way of life. It's hard to describe his books and Rucker's writing style is not everyone's cup of tea but William Gibson…

  on “Ask HN: What literature do you read?” ↗
• gcanyon · Nov 17, 2024 · Recommends

  I'll shout out his book Postsingular, which is a real head-trip and available under a Creative Commons license here: https://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postsingular

  on “James Gleick's Chaos: The Software” ↗
• akamoonknight · Jan 6, 2024 · Mentions

  I believe I read a science fiction book around this topic. Postsingular by Rudy Rucker I believe, related to nanotechnology. Can't remember most of it, but delved a little into how it affects relationships re: every thing being visible always to everyone. Not sure I'd entirely…

  on “Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras” ↗
• cmars232 · Dec 29, 2009 · Mentions

  This is a bit off topic, but I related Avatar to Rudy Rucker's Postsingular. Same theme of technology becoming irrelevant when faced with superior natural/supernatural alternative, which I think reveals what we subconsciously desire, try and fail to create with technology. Just…

  on “Thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar and “Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out”” ↗
• ajmurmann · Aug 17, 2023 · Critical

  I loved the beginning and then liked it less and less as it moves not into three future and becomes more fantastical. I eventually stopped reading. The same thing happened to me with Rudy Rucker's Postsingular.

  on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗
• gcanyon · Nov 22, 2024 · Mentions

  Or Rudy Rucker’s Postsingular, where the “orphidnet” utility fog enables universal perception/visualization.

  on “A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt” ↗