thanks for the interesting read, Joshua.
But i don't like this guy's conclusions about modern
humanity just sitting around bored at all. Stable is
stagnent, stagnent is decline. Decline is death.
I used to think about just this sort of thing. It
would probably end up as limited personality analogs
though, I don't see how the human spirit could
translate over to digital. Not anytime soon anyway.
=( And if/when we run into other starfaring races,
what will they think of us if we're too much a bunch
of sissies to leave the cradle in person?
dean
busily rereading his copies of gurps robots,
terradyne, and reign of steel.
--- Joshua Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An article which nicely summarizes my hopes and
> fears about getting us off
> this rock:
>
>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/space/20010628/sc/uploading_life_send_your_personality_to_space_1.html
>
> Admittedly, it's a transfer of hopes from rockets &
> antigravity to AI and
> nanotech. At the very least, though, it's nice to
> know I'm not the only
> crazy one. :)
>
> Joshua
>
>
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