From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 02:38:22 MST
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:00:45PM -0800, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> Damien Broderick writes:
>
> > Aargh.) Well, it's true that his cats weren't *uploaded* but jacked in and
> > temporarily enhanced in conjunction with a human operator/lover; still....
>
> Didn't that make them forever feline-fixated? I seem to remember...
Got to go back and re-read Cordwainer Smith; a couple of books of his
(well, one plus a collection of shorts) have been stuck in my to-read
shelf for a while now.
_There_ was an SF writer who was exploring themes relating to
transhumanism as far back as the 1940's.
-- Charlie
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