{"product_id":"the-rapture-of-the-nerds-a-tale-of-the-singularity-posthumanity-and-awkward-social-situations-9780765329110","title":"The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations\u003c\/strong\u003e by Doctorow, Cory. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780765329110.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.\nEarth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun.\nThe splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander…and when that happens, it casually spams Earths networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but theres always someone wholl take a bite from the forbidden apple.\nSo until the overminds bore of stirring Earths anthill, theres Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.\nRapture of the Nerds is a brilliant collaboration by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, two of the defining personalities of post-cyberpunk science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44950113386549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0765329115","price":60.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780765329110_e9f1d64f-99d9-4a21-bb57-5857d2216084.jpg?v=1792795757","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-rapture-of-the-nerds-a-tale-of-the-singularity-posthumanity-and-awkward-social-situations-9780765329110","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}