So i'm writing a book.
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:13 pm
And I'm really sure that there are seventy thousand sources of error in it. I'd love it if you made me look like an idiot and pointed out all the spots where I turned stupid.
http://sapincher.com/media/badera.doc
The main plot is this:
Humanity gets into a moral argument with itself over the righteousness of augmenting your body with technological components, like getting brain implants or even uploading our consciousness to a computer, like in my last thread. The cyborg humans rally for supporters of their cause, which angers the more conservative humans. These believe that it is unnatural and inhuman to be such a way, and they wage war. Cyborgs reach the logical conclusion to send out thousands of deep space probes containing technological replicating "seeds" of artificial life, in case all hell breaks loose and the conservative humans start using nuclear warfare and everyone dies.
Of course, while the probes are in transit, humanity is killing itself. Cyborgs have utmost confidence in their plan, and play the defensive role while conservatives resort to nanotechnological warfare to get the cyborgs off the face of Earth. Without restrictions, it gets out of hand, and a self replicating nanobot is released into nature, which uses all useful materials to make more nanobots. in the end, Earth becomes a floating ball of Grey Ooze and all the materials not needed by the nanobots. Everyone/thing is dead on Earth.
The probes land on 1,754 different planets and set up server hubs with automated energy sources (not like infinite energy, just solar or whatever the planet has to offer). Due to the discovery of superluminal particles on the part of the cyborgs, the servers have near instantaneous communication, creating an interstellar network. Virtual life is carried out in this network, up to the point of emulated humans and their emulated achievements and so on.
Life in the virtual network is going okay, as everyone has adopted a mellow lifestyle and they've become rather communistic because I don't know that is just how it is. Because of the speed of their circuitry, time is experienced one million times slower than by humans. It takes a million years for a complete revolution of the Earth, or rather, the ball of Ooze. They achieve a breakthrough with science and realize that there are connection lag times in their world, and come to the realization that they are living in a virtual world a la matrix redpills. They learn how to interface with the hubs that connect them to the real world, and inform the robots that have been working the automated energy supplies to produce tools for them, which they use to manipulate the real world, which by now they are calling the First Plane and theirs the Second. They start to search for their history and discover a wandering spacecraft, Unification (sent out by the cyborgs with information from home), which leads them to another one, Biogenesis (sent out by the conservatives on a crusade to inform other intelligent lifeforms about the problems of artificial intelligence), and eventually rassling up even the Voyagers and Pioneers, the whole process taking millions of years for them.
Everyone gets superpowers from being able to plug directly into the mainframe and transport, learn instantly, and various other superpowers, and hackers form organized crime syndicates and basically the entire economy is ripped to shreds. There are no conservatives to stop this seedy economy from happening because everyone has been wrapped up in the existential trauma of not really existing, and the fact that the cyborgs planned them without consciences.
The book itself is written as a series of soapbox lectures by this random guy about the fall of Earth as recorded from Unification and Biogenesis, why they fell, and how this situation applies to their current state of turmoil. This is the essential point of the entire novel. It is basically a science fiction satire about the problems we face with both conservatives and the idealistic, with the fall of Earth and the Baderan network, respectively. It is a semimodern events work that states that when computers gain enough technology, Earth won't be the same. I do partially expect humans to react with blowing up the Earth, because we are a society too based on morals and impeding scientific progress. We need a balance, and not a civil war, when it comes.
Er, do you get it? Do you like it? Is it too over cooked?
http://sapincher.com/media/badera.doc
The main plot is this:
Humanity gets into a moral argument with itself over the righteousness of augmenting your body with technological components, like getting brain implants or even uploading our consciousness to a computer, like in my last thread. The cyborg humans rally for supporters of their cause, which angers the more conservative humans. These believe that it is unnatural and inhuman to be such a way, and they wage war. Cyborgs reach the logical conclusion to send out thousands of deep space probes containing technological replicating "seeds" of artificial life, in case all hell breaks loose and the conservative humans start using nuclear warfare and everyone dies.
Of course, while the probes are in transit, humanity is killing itself. Cyborgs have utmost confidence in their plan, and play the defensive role while conservatives resort to nanotechnological warfare to get the cyborgs off the face of Earth. Without restrictions, it gets out of hand, and a self replicating nanobot is released into nature, which uses all useful materials to make more nanobots. in the end, Earth becomes a floating ball of Grey Ooze and all the materials not needed by the nanobots. Everyone/thing is dead on Earth.
The probes land on 1,754 different planets and set up server hubs with automated energy sources (not like infinite energy, just solar or whatever the planet has to offer). Due to the discovery of superluminal particles on the part of the cyborgs, the servers have near instantaneous communication, creating an interstellar network. Virtual life is carried out in this network, up to the point of emulated humans and their emulated achievements and so on.
Life in the virtual network is going okay, as everyone has adopted a mellow lifestyle and they've become rather communistic because I don't know that is just how it is. Because of the speed of their circuitry, time is experienced one million times slower than by humans. It takes a million years for a complete revolution of the Earth, or rather, the ball of Ooze. They achieve a breakthrough with science and realize that there are connection lag times in their world, and come to the realization that they are living in a virtual world a la matrix redpills. They learn how to interface with the hubs that connect them to the real world, and inform the robots that have been working the automated energy supplies to produce tools for them, which they use to manipulate the real world, which by now they are calling the First Plane and theirs the Second. They start to search for their history and discover a wandering spacecraft, Unification (sent out by the cyborgs with information from home), which leads them to another one, Biogenesis (sent out by the conservatives on a crusade to inform other intelligent lifeforms about the problems of artificial intelligence), and eventually rassling up even the Voyagers and Pioneers, the whole process taking millions of years for them.
Everyone gets superpowers from being able to plug directly into the mainframe and transport, learn instantly, and various other superpowers, and hackers form organized crime syndicates and basically the entire economy is ripped to shreds. There are no conservatives to stop this seedy economy from happening because everyone has been wrapped up in the existential trauma of not really existing, and the fact that the cyborgs planned them without consciences.
The book itself is written as a series of soapbox lectures by this random guy about the fall of Earth as recorded from Unification and Biogenesis, why they fell, and how this situation applies to their current state of turmoil. This is the essential point of the entire novel. It is basically a science fiction satire about the problems we face with both conservatives and the idealistic, with the fall of Earth and the Baderan network, respectively. It is a semimodern events work that states that when computers gain enough technology, Earth won't be the same. I do partially expect humans to react with blowing up the Earth, because we are a society too based on morals and impeding scientific progress. We need a balance, and not a civil war, when it comes.
Er, do you get it? Do you like it? Is it too over cooked?