> Just then, a bandwidth load as heavy as a pregnant elephant sits down on Manfred's head and sends clumps of humongous pixilation flickering across his sensorium: Around the world, five million or so geeks are bouncing on his home site, a digital flash crowd alerted by a posting from the other side of the bar. Manfred winces. "I really came here to talk about the economic exploitation of space travel, but I've just been slashdotted. Mind if I just sit and drink until it wears off?"
Damn, I read that book as a teenager in 2006 or 07! I've been thinking about a reread whenever I remember it. It was the book that really made me appreciate the whole technological singularity idea back then.
- Charlie Stross, "Accelerando"