Poul Anderson, The Fleet Of Stars, 8.
"'The news from the stars has touched everyone in the Solar System...'" (p. 107)
Downloaded human personalitites, integrated with a planetary ecology, have become a "Life Mother," guiding and directing the terraforming of a planet. A Life Mother has also been able to transfer a downloaded personality into a body newly grown from the original person's DNA. Thirdly, near light speed spaceships have been developed. Thus, both extra-solar colonization and immortality have become feasible. Although the first "resurrections" were performed by a Life Mother, does a Life Mother remain necessary for this process? If not, then immortality might be even closer.
A community of human beings and intelligent seals based in the Pacific now hopes to terraform Mars.The cybercosm resists sudden social or technological revolutions but change edges closer, nevertheless.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And why should the cybercosm, being INORGANIC, even care about, never mind OPPOSE, what human beings were doing? What threat or danger were humans to it?
Sean
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