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Sophtware ecologies in finance - Worldtree - 09-12-2013

http://io9.com/a-new-digital-world-is-emerging-thats-too-fast-for-us-1286428447

In a way, this phenomenon of not-entirely-comprehensible software ecologies controlling parts of the economy gives a feeling for what might come next.


RE: Sophtware ecologies in finance - Rynn - 09-12-2013

Reminds me of Accelerando by Charles Stross. In the story a technological singularity progresses but rather than being formed by AIs and uploaded humans it's a battleground of sentient financial instruments. Not a happy future by any means.