I am going to launch a world building wiki. The working name for the project is "Red".
Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use MediaWiki. I haven't decided on GFDL or Creative Commons license yet. The wiki will not be an Uplift site. These are the features that I'm thinking of as part of a fairly Luddite "cannon". --Only STL travel is possible. No FTL, no worm holes. --No reactionless drives. --No antigravity. ----The main means of travel is by beam riding ships weighing a few grams and made of computronium. --Most forms of sophonce do not rely on quantum states ----Therefore, mental states can be non-destructively copied. --The galaxy is entirely colonized. ----Therefore we are millions of years in the future. -----Therefore humans are extinct. -----Therefore economic ecology is very post-singularity. --Fermi was right. All "life" is Terragenetic. --Sapient beings who are any distance up the eco-econ trophic levels live a LONG time. ----Interstellar correspondence is reasonable, even at light speed or slower. --There are many unimaginably smart sapients --The island nature of each star means that an eco-econ tends to involution. ----Stellar habitats tend to convert matter into huge Dyson swarms. ------Dyson swarms use as much solar energy as possible. ------Solar systems look like big, cold spheres from the outside. --Eco-econs suffer from relative scarcity. Feedback is sought. I'm wondering if this cannon is going to be too unpopular. Maybe no one will play with me. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
