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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
Not everyone is concerned with the deep future," Manfred interrupts. "It's important! If we live or die, that doesn't matter-that's not the big picture. The big question is whether information originating in our light cone is preserved, or whether we're stuck in a lossy medium where our very existence counts for nothing. It's downright embarrassing to be a member of a species with such a profound lack of curiosity about its own future, especially when it affects us all personally! I mean, if there's going to come a time when there's nobody or nothing to remember us then what does –
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
The informational density of the inner planets is visibly converging on Avogadro's number of bits per mole, one bit per atom,
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mess with its neural configuration, too: This is its third body, and it's getting more realistically uncooperative with every hardware upgrade. Sooner or later it's going to demand a litter tray and start throwing up on the carpet.
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes," his grandmother replies bleakly. "Humans don't live in a vacuum; we're part of a larger pattern of life."
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
It's not just the music. When we develop a working AI or upload minds, we'll need a way of defending it against legal threats. That's what Gianni pointed out to me . . .
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
Somewhere in the Acceleration, colorless green ideas adrift in furious sleep remember a tiny starship launched years ago, and pay attention.
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
Sadeq, being human, has fantasies by the dozen, but he doesn't dare permit himself to succumb to temptation. I'm not dead, he reasons; therefore, how can I be in Paradise? Therefore, this must be a false paradise, a temptation sent to lead me astray. Probably. Unless I am dead, because Allah, peace be unto him, considers a human soul separated from its body to be dead. But if that's so, isn't uploading a sin? In which case, this can't be Paradise because I am a sinner. Besides which, this whole setup is so puerile!
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments.
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
money is a symptom of poverty, after all, and Manfred never has to pay for anything.
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
Jest upalny letni wtorek. Stoi na placu przed dworcem Centraal, ma włączone gałki oczne. Kanał skrzy się słońcem, wokół śmigają skutery i rowerzyści-kamikadze, ze wszystkich stron trajkocą turyści. Plac pachnie wodą, ziemią, rozgrzanym metalem i spalinami z zimnych katalizatorów, jak pierdnięciem; w tle podzwaniają tramwaje, nad głową fruwają ptaki.
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Charles Stross _ Accelerando
Waaant equity," hisses the alien intruder."You can't be Pamela Macx," says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobster-woman-thing. "She's in a nunnery in Armenia or something. You pulled that out of Glashwiecz's memories - he worked for her, didn't he?"Claws go snicker-snack before his face. "Investment partnership!" screeches the harridan. "Seat on the board! Eat brains for breakfast!" It lurches sideways, trying to get past his guard.
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