If you are curious about something like this, there is a famous sci-fi book called "Glasshouse" (http://www.amazon.com/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross/dp/0441015085/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1417575141&sr=8-14&keywords=glass+house) that pretty much talks about it. Though it is more about how people and machines are at the point where "what is humanity anymore" comes into question. The sections I refer to about this particular question is about how we can save our "current" consciousness, go off and get killed, and revert back to our "saved" consciousness in a new version of our body and not remember what we did originally after that save. It really is interesting and I had to read the book two or three times to fully wrap my head around it.
It makes you freak out about the singularity and how we wont be "human" anymore.
We're reading Rule 34 this month in r/SF_Book_Club. I'm, reading Halting State at the moment which is set before the events in Rule 34 and I'm really enjoying it.
My favourite Stross book is probably Glasshouse which is set in the same universe and some time after the events in Accelerando; I'd definitely recommend it.
Incredibly late to the party... but right now I'm reading The Atrocity Archives - by Charles Stross. If you like well written sci-fi, Lovecraftian interdimensional horrors, and computer science, this is the book for you.
One of his other novels, Glasshouse, might be my all time favorite book. It's pretty easy to read sci-fi, has some awesome new concepts, and surprisingly really delves deep into gender issues. The last part kinda threw me but it's really well done and a very well presented.
If you are curious about something like this, there is a famous sci-fi book called "Glasshouse" (http://www.amazon.com/Glasshouse-Charles-Stross/dp/0441015085/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1417575141&sr=8-14&keywords=glass+house) that pretty much talks about it. Though it is more about how people and machines are at the point where "what is humanity anymore" comes into question. The sections I refer to about this particular question is about how we can save our "current" consciousness, go off and get killed, and revert back to our "saved" consciousness in a new version of our body and not remember what we did originally after that save. It really is interesting and I had to read the book two or three times to fully wrap my head around it.
It makes you freak out about the singularity and how we wont be "human" anymore.
We're reading Rule 34 this month in r/SF_Book_Club. I'm, reading Halting State at the moment which is set before the events in Rule 34 and I'm really enjoying it.
My favourite Stross book is probably Glasshouse which is set in the same universe and some time after the events in Accelerando; I'd definitely recommend it.
This one?
Glasshouse.
Upvoted for Glasshouse. Charlie Stross's best work, IMHO.
The Glasshouse - Charles Stross.
Really hard sci-fi and great read.
Incredibly late to the party... but right now I'm reading The Atrocity Archives - by Charles Stross. If you like well written sci-fi, Lovecraftian interdimensional horrors, and computer science, this is the book for you.
One of his other novels, Glasshouse, might be my all time favorite book. It's pretty easy to read sci-fi, has some awesome new concepts, and surprisingly really delves deep into gender issues. The last part kinda threw me but it's really well done and a very well presented.