I think if you’re already onboard with “people made of software” then this part goes through with much less difficulty?
Is it imaginable that we could develop the technology to support multiple equivalents of today’s entire civilization, per atom available? Sure—but this would require a radical degree of transformation of our lives and societies, far beyond how much change we’ve seen over the course of human history to date.
Maybe you have read this stuff, and its just that you’re writing for an audience with a limited imagination? Its hard for me to figure it out.
And every time I read commentary on what’s going on in the world, people are discussing how to arrange your seatbelt as comfortably as possible given that wearing one is part of life, or saying how the best moments in life are sitting with your family and watching the white lines whooshing by, or arguing about whose fault it is that there’s a background roar making it hard to hear each other.
Are you writing to and for those people? Or are you like me, trying to figure out where the cockpit (or the escape hatch) is and whether anyone has their hands on the wheel at all?
I think if you’re already onboard with “people made of software” then this part goes through with much less difficulty?
Have you read Diaspora or Permutation City? Or heck, even just maybe Excession? Dragon’s Egg is kinda fun but (via the same data that leads to the Fermi Problem) can’t be true because if femtotechnological biology is real then… it already happened.
Maybe you have read this stuff, and its just that you’re writing for an audience with a limited imagination? Its hard for me to figure it out.
Are you writing to and for those people? Or are you like me, trying to figure out where the cockpit (or the escape hatch) is and whether anyone has their hands on the wheel at all?