On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 06:16:14PM -0400, Adam Back wrote: > The planet sized processor stuff reminds me of Charlie Stross' sci-fi > short story "Scratch Monkey" which features nanotech, planet sized
Not a coincidence, as he's been mining diverse transhumanist/extropian communities for raw bits. Kudos to his work, very nicely done. > processors which colonize space and build more planet-sized > processors. The application is upload, real-time memory backup, and > afterlife in DreamTime (distributed simulation environment), and an > option of reincarnation. http://www.aleph.se/Trans/ is a bit dated, but is still a very good resource. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net
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