[extropy-chat] New Hope for the Dead

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Apr 23 20:15:57 UTC 2007


This *Nature* storyette, by Dave Langford, is very droll:

"New Hope for the Dead"

http://ansible.co.uk/writing/new_hope.html

...The simplest scheme is what our client-advisors amusingly call
"being dead for tax reasons". Maintaining your full activity as an
EGAN requires continuing exabyte-scale storage capacity and very
substantial 24/7 processor power. We can enormously reduce the
associated expenses by storing you in static, compressed Zip format
for reactivation in a time of better economic weather.

etc

Damien Broderick




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