planet sized processors (Re: On what the NSA does with its tech)

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu Aug 5 01:56:07 PDT 2004


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

[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]





More information about the cypherpunks-legacy mailing list