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[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
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Charles Stross
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).
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I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.
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I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.
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You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
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While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
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