Silicon Dreaming

So what happened? Well, I think that’s something a lot of us are still trying to figure out, but there’s also a lot who don’t really care, just trying to get through the rest of their lives the best they can, going from planet to planet in search of work or a decent place to settle down with a nice girl or something. I remember when all our dreams were set so high. We’d build castles in the sky, literally, the giant space docks, and there’d be whole communities living and dreaming, millions of people coming and going, the whole place like one giant cluster of activity, working together like one enormous organism.

Of course now there is the very real threat of actual giant space organisms, the starwhales, as they have come to be known rather than their proportionally long and difficult to pronounce scientific name, certainly the largest organic creatures they’ve ever shown in any of those space wildlife documentaries. But then again, you never can tell exactly whether what they tell you on the reality screens reflect the actual truth of reality. Almost everyone has their own agenda. I can’t help but think sometimes that the starwhales are only now exacting their revenge on us after centuries of hunting and slaughter for their valuable oils, their massive bones for construction and their tender flesh that many considered the greatest delicacy in the galaxy, if not the universe. I don’t really care for it too much though, but it does go well with carrots I must say.

Well there’s really not too much of a market for immortality these days. Besides the fact that it is illegal in many parts of the galaxy owned and operated by the people’s combine, for one thing there are very few actual people who could afford the basic upload package, and that’s without the extra additional add-ons. Secondly, even if anyone could afford it, they probably wouldn’t want to have it done anyway. Not in these terrible times. Actually I’m pretty sure the whole notion of achievable immortality has pretty much fallen off the galactic social conscious radar. Nothing about it is ever shown on the reality screens, almost like Immotec itself and the whole concept never even existed.

posted by Joshua @ 19:13