a book everyone excited about the agentic economy should read - Accelerando by Charles Stross the main character has a metacortex - a distributed cloud of software agents surrounding him in "netspace," borrowing CPU cycles from nearby processors and spawning new sub‑agents to research opportunities while he moves through the world these agents continuously negotiate over compute, bandwidth, and informational “payoff,” treating economics as a game where abundance has replaced scarcity markets and games blur together—scarcity is an old "primate superstition", and the real contest is how elegantly you can route compute toward interesting problems i continue to believe reading sci fi is the highest ROI activity for anyone who wants to build for the future(Meltem Demirors)