The Rapture of the Nerds | Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/230752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rapture of the Nerds Author: Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 7, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century. Earth 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 it obscures the sun. The 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 Earth's 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 there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple. So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's 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. The Rapture of the Nerds is a brilliant collaboration by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, two of the defining personalities of post-cyberpunk science fiction.