[ExI] teleportation, anyone?

[William Flynn Wallace]

Greg Egan has a good take on this concept, with his stories set in a
galactic civilisation where people can travel around the galaxy at the
speed of light, as software packages transmitted by laser. Setting up
the infrastructure would be slow of course, but once in place, anyone
could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few tens of thousands of years
real-time, with each 'jump' taking zero subjective time.

I hope that there is a lot of bandwidth and storage, because everyone will
want to go!  bill w

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:16 PM Ben Zaiboc <ben at zaiboc.net> wrote:

>
> Sounds very biology-centric, to me. I really don't see the point in
> trying to get biological organisms to survive in an environment that is
> extremely hostile to them, when non-biological machines would be much
> easier to make and adapt to the environment. Once we've cracked
> uploading, biology will become much less important to us, if not
> irrelevant altogether. The 'teleportation' idea would really take off
> then. Biology will be a quaint side-show, with about as much relevance
> for most people as flint knapping has for us now.
>
> Greg Egan has a good take on this concept, with his stories set in a
> galactic civilisation where people can travel around the galaxy at the
> speed of light, as software packages transmitted by laser. Setting up
> the infrastructure would be slow of course, but once in place, anyone
> could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few tens of thousands of years
> real-time, with each 'jump' taking zero subjective time.
>
> Ben Zaiboc
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