Re: the upload meme in sf - first use?

From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 23:40:37 MDT


On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:09:30PM +1000, Damien Broderick wrote:

> realtime-archiving all human minds since we first evolved. Can anyone think
> of earlier uses in sf of this idea? (I wouldn't be surprised if Lem or
> Stapledon or Wells did so decades ahead of me.)

rec.arts.sf.written would probably be a better forum.

It seems _The Silicon Man_ was written later than I thought.

I don't suppose the Arisians count.

You know, Amazon's pretty lousy at giving exact oldest copyrights. Oh,
loc.gov is better.

Anything in Hitchhiker's? That was 1980.

-xx- Damien X-)



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