[extropy-chat] Support your local transhumanist artist I

[Chris Hibbert]

>Mike Lorrey wrote:
>> I'd like to see a story that did the reverse: allowed a
>> person to travel forward in time, but only within their future real
>> natural life span, such that they can jump to halfway to their natural
>> death, then half again, etc. The story would follow this several jumps,
>> with views of society that demonstrate the power of exponential change
>> in technology

and Damien replied:
> Yes, I've been thinking along those lines myself. It's the natural
> Vingean story-telling metric.
> 
>  Damien Broderick

Have you read Marc Stiegler's "Gentle Seduction"?  It has the same 
flavor, while taking a different approach.  The story is a series of 
vignettes in which the protagonist is confronted with a choice, each of 
which is clearly a small change in style of living (given the context 
built up in the vignette), but by the end of the story, the character 
has changed from a relatively normal present day person into a 
universe-spanning multi-consciousness.

At each step, she resists because the choice challenges her self image. 
  But it's clear in retrospect that each change was small and inevitable.

Chris
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Chris Hibbert
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