Re: the upload meme in sf - first use?

From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 23:58:25 MDT


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

> And speaking of the upload meme, it occurred to me that the first novel
> with an explicit use of general mind uploading to an artificial substrate

Clarke's novel 2001 says that the monolith-makers had translated their minds
to machines as a "brief" phase before turning into energy vortices or
whatever. This from about 1968.

-xx- Damien X-)



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