From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 09:20:43 MST
At 07:32 PM 12/10/98 -0800, Eric Ruud wrote:
>Supposing somewhere far in the future humanity (or possibly even some other
>intelligent life form) develops time travel.
>They might, however, be able to upload personalities into a computer at the
>moment of death, thusly not changing anything in that reality.
Spider Robinson wrote a couple of novels based on just that premise. I
believe DEATHKILLER was the first of the sequence. LIFEHOUSE. Maybe one
more.
My own THE DREAMING DRAGONS used a version of this notion back in 1980.
Damien Broderick
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