No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be inโฆ and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind ofโฆ glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.
Greg EganI was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.
Greg EganDiaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
Greg Egan