[extropy-chat] Yesterday's Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life

[Damien Broderick]

At 11:30 PM 4/30/2007 -0400, Keith wrote:

>I have been working on an unpublishable novel where the big problem of a
>hundred years hence is to prevent all the physical state human population
>from vanishing into simulations.
>
>I started it before Second Life.  I never dreamed I would see such an
>example before I finished it.

I wrote one 30 years ago, published finally in 1982, in which almost 
all remnant humans have withdrawn into simulations (under the lofty 
custodianship of human-AI cyborgs). I never dreamed it would take so long. :)

Damien Broderick