Suicide Girls has published an excerpt of the final piece of The Rapture of the Nerds by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow. Here’s a bit:
The Burj Khalifa’s in-room TV gets an infinity of channels, evidently cross-wired from the cable feed for Hilbert’s hotel. It uses some evolutionary computing system to generate new programs on the fly, every time you press the channel-up button. This isn’t nearly as banal as Huw imagined it might be when she read about it on the triangular-folded cardboard standup that materialized in her hand as she reached for the remote. That’s because — as the card explained — the Burj has enough computation to model captive versions of Huw at extremely high speed, and to tailor the programming by sharpening its teeth against these instances-in-a-bottle so that every press of the button brings up eye-catching, attention-snaring material: soft-core pornography that involves pottery, mostly.
She goes on to have angst over that fact that each button press is creating and killing hordes of herself.
You can read the full excerpt here. The Rapture of the Nerds is available on Amazon.