Accelerando

Accelerando by Charles Stross – A Sci-Fi Vision of the Singularity Accelerando (2005) by Charles Stross is a science fiction novel first released as short stories in Asimov’s Science Fiction. The book explores humanity’s transformation as technology grows at an exponential speed, moving toward the technological singularity. The title means “gradually increasing in tempo” in Italian, symbolizing rapid technological acceleration. The main character, Manfred Macx, is a “venture altruist” who shares ideas instead of chasing profit. Stross described him as a “pronoiac meme-broker,” a concept that predicted today’s crypto and open-source culture. In Chapter One, “Lobsters,” California spiny lobsters upload their minds into an AI network to escape human control—introducing themes of AI, digital consciousness, and post-human evolution.