[ExI] reconsidering the Orion's Arm timeline...

Emlyn emlynoregan at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 05:58:46 UTC 2009


2009/1/7 Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>:
> 2009/1/7 Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com>:
>
>> This is my attempt on humans being seduced into cyberspace in a short story.
>>
>> http://www.terasemjournals.org/GN0202/henson.html
>
> Is "seduced" a good word? Sometimes I talk to people the possibility
> of a human future in cyberspace and they are horrified. I counter that
> no-one will be forced but instead they will undergo the change
> voluntarily, because once they understand it or experience it they
> will see its advantages. Comes the reply: "So people won't be forced,
> they'll be seduced! That's just as bad!"

I think it'll be more or less like this:

http://www.angryflower.com/borg27.gif

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Emlyn

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