Re: _Feersum Endjinn_ Iain Banks - not very good

Omixochitl <omixochitl2002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>phoenix@xxxxxxx (Damien Sullivan) wrote in

>> reason of losing their jobs.) The residents of Earth are descended
>> from the people who recoiled from the highest technology of the
>> future, and are ruled by people who continue to so recoil. And I
>
>Um, is the space travel they don't have necessarily higher than the AI they
>do have?
>
>Calling space travel itself more advanced than AI (instead of remembering

I didn't think it was the space travel they recoiled from, but the full use of
AI technology. E.g. a limited number of reincarnations, and the rulers
wanting to physically pass through the safety wormhole, whereas the whole
population could have been transmitted through in virtual form.

And technically what they were using was uploading and VR; AI proper, well,
that was the 'chaos' they fought against.

The very name of the Earth faction was Reviler or Resiler or something,
indicating their rejectionism.

And the Feersum Endjinn itself, or wormhole making, yeah, I could be willing
to call those more advanced tech.

-xx- Damien X-)
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