The reading list that goes with this is XKCD (http://xkcd.com/865/), Cory Doctorow's 'Makers' (http://craphound.com/makers/download/), Charles Stross's 'Accelerando' (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html/), Alastair Reynold's 'Chasm City' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasm_City) and Vernor Vinge's A 'Deepness in the Sky' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky).