<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Greg Egan has a good take on this concept, with his stories set in a </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">galactic civilisation where people can travel around the galaxy at the </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">speed of light, as software packages transmitted by laser. Setting up </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">the infrastructure would be slow of course, but once in place, anyone </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few tens of thousands of years </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">real-time, with each 'jump' taking zero subjective time.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I hope that there is a lot of bandwidth and storage, because everyone will want to go! bill w</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:16 PM Ben Zaiboc <<a href="mailto:ben@zaiboc.net" target="_blank">ben@zaiboc.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Sounds very biology-centric, to me. I really don't see the point in <br>
trying to get biological organisms to survive in an environment that is <br>
extremely hostile to them, when non-biological machines would be much <br>
easier to make and adapt to the environment. Once we've cracked <br>
uploading, biology will become much less important to us, if not <br>
irrelevant altogether. The 'teleportation' idea would really take off <br>
then. Biology will be a quaint side-show, with about as much relevance <br>
for most people as flint knapping has for us now.<br>
<br>
Greg Egan has a good take on this concept, with his stories set in a <br>
galactic civilisation where people can travel around the galaxy at the <br>
speed of light, as software packages transmitted by laser. Setting up <br>
the infrastructure would be slow of course, but once in place, anyone <br>
could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few tens of thousands of years <br>
real-time, with each 'jump' taking zero subjective time.<br>
<br>
Ben Zaiboc<br>
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