Re: the upload meme in sf - first use?

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 19:44:41 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 05:11 PM 7/11/02 -0400, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> >Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love", "Cat Who Walks Through Walls", etc...
> >which I believe are at least a few years previous to yours.
>
> The former was 1973, the latter 1985. Both had AIs with chatty
> personalities, some of which *down*loaded into flesh. I don't believe there
> were any uploads.

In the former, the AI, Minerva, discusses the option for Lazarus of
having his mind uploaded and then downloaded into an amphibious body.



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