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Charlie Stross is a Guest of Honour at this year's Eastercon, so I thought I'd better catch up on the month or so of his blogged I missed since I went on holiday. The man sure do generate some ideas.

The singularity is a theme often explored in his work. One definition of which is the point at which graphs for technoglogical growth reach infinity. So his post on the time for worldwide technological addoption dropping from 125 to 16 years caught my imagination.

Say you want to set a story 30 years out... Back in 1900 to 1950 you could do so with a fair degree of accuracy... But today, that 30-year window is inaccessible. Even a 15-year horizon is pushing it. Something new could come along tomorrow and overrun the entire developed world before 2023.

Here's Charlie's take on the future, after Moore's law craps out.

Also from his blog was a link to this tale of how ATM's could have brought down the UK banks in the '90s. Poor internal security lead to one bank going seriously rogue.

Eastercon LiveJournal exchange, regarding email notification of programme participants ... Autopope: 'I haven't heard hide nor hair from you.' Committee Person: 'Who are you?' Autopope: 'I'm Charlie Stross, one of your GoH's.' CP: 'Ah, it's you ...'

Seen over at the, invaluable to UK fen, ansible newsletter.

Finally here's a Audio version of Trunk and Disorderly, a Stross novella.