I love Sci-fi that tackles social questions. My favourite sci-fi book is Down and out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. It changes very few elements of our society comparatively to other sci-fi authors but they have extremely large ramifications.
They still have computers but they are a chip in your head. Memories can be backuped and restored and making a full grown clone at any age is trivial. And the world is now post-scarcity and working in a reputation economy (you basically upvote people in your mind).
And this changes everything. Imagine that you can mentally IM with people (telepathy!), mentally Google anything, and mentally take notes of things you don't want to forget in a word processor.
Imagine that you lived something terrible and had the option to restore from backup before it happened. Imagine your relationship to danger if you can be brought back to life no matter what.
And imagine if the issues of karma systems like reddit's permeated all of society.
I love Sci-fi that tackles social questions. My favourite sci-fi book is Down and out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. It changes very few elements of our society comparatively to other sci-fi authors but they have extremely large ramifications.
They still have computers but they are a chip in your head. Memories can be backuped and restored and making a full grown clone at any age is trivial. And the world is now post-scarcity and working in a reputation economy (you basically upvote people in your mind).
And this changes everything. Imagine that you can mentally IM with people (telepathy!), mentally Google anything, and mentally take notes of things you don't want to forget in a word processor.
Imagine that you lived something terrible and had the option to restore from backup before it happened. Imagine your relationship to danger if you can be brought back to life no matter what.
And imagine if the issues of karma systems like reddit's permeated all of society.