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.
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