[NewMusic] the future (sucks)

[Jacob Lindsay]

I recommend Greg Egan: "Diaspora" and "Permutation
City".  Both on that subject and very interesting
reads.



--- Praemedia <praemedia at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Wake me up when everyone has left their physical
> > bodies and have downloaded themselves onto
> software.
> 
> just finished a book on that very subject, and I'm
> happy to report to you that this probably won't be a
> possibility in any of our lifetimes....
> 
> ...the book had a funny little statistical fact
> about
> all the futuristic extropians. each and every one of
> their predictions about downloadable personas
> coincides with the decade in which they will reach
> their seventies. its just religious afterlife
> disguised as science possibility. the older people
> like ray kurtzweil get, the more they sound like dr.
> leary. may the electrical god bless their little
> excentric souls. the earth would be much less
> exciting
> without them.
> 
> lance
> 
> 
> 
>        
>
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Jacob Lindsay
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