Quantum computers and nanotech facilitate speedy construction of the first quantum field gate drive spaceship which, like a hyperdrive, cannot be switched on too deep in a gravity well. It jumps from a normal zero energy state "'...to the superhigh energy level it gets from below the universe, and then falls back down again to normal...'" (p. 14) and is therefore called the zero-zero drive.
This drive will carry human beings across interstellar distances. Machines will not become as intelligent as human beings because consciousness and creative thought are activities of the entire human organism, not of electrons in circuits. Thus, Starfarers and Genesis, in which AI's supersede mankind, represent alternative futures.
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