Re: the upload meme in sf - first use?

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 15:11:39 MDT


Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love", "Cat Who Walks Through Walls", etc...
which I believe are at least a few years previous to yours.

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
> might be my 1980 sf novel THE DREAMING DRAGONS (now with the preferred
> title THE DREAMING), when it turns out there's a sort of Akashic records
> device, a `gluon lattice denser than neutronium', that has been
> 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.)
>
> Damien Broderick



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