{"product_id":"9781429944915","title":"The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations","description":"Test2-MacmillanNonDRM-\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant collaboration from the two defining personalities of post-cyberpunk: Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139278094576,"sku":"9781429944915","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429944915_p0.jpg?v=1763749571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429944915","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}