07-24-2013, 10:34 AM
(07-24-2013, 09:07 AM)AmrlKJaneway Wrote: Or am I thinking too advanced? Or am I fundamentally wrong? Will the starship phase of expansion be skipped, in favour of cheaper, more energy efficient (and environmentally efficient, as every energy expenditure speeds up the universe's eventual heat death) and seemingly faster "beaming" of human colonists?
In OA we have starship tech being perfected before 'beaming' tech is mastered. However, that is just one possible future. Note that not everyone may want to be 'beamed' around. In OA it appears that this method is getting ever more popular (or is the majority method if we consider that the vast majority of the population is sophtware and presumably travels this way all the time (when they bother to travel in a 'conventional' sense).
Note that in OA, uploading and engenerator tech are all modosophont inventions, no singularity required. Whether that turns out to be true, only time will tell.
Todd
