03-03-2018, 03:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-03-2018, 03:52 AM by stevebowers.)
Yeah, you are right; the Fleshers aren't Luddite, but they are philosophically opposed to uploading. I suppose this isn't really surprising, since they are the descendants of humans who did not upload themselves centuries before. When Lacerta G-1 occurs, uploading is a pretty good way of escaping, but most of them reject it.
Even in OA there are large sections of the population who reject uploading and backup technology; quite a few of those are biologically immortal, but without backup tech these bionts are at the mercy of fatal accidents. In our own society about 2% of humans are killed in accidents; this means a human might expect to live about 50 current-day lifetimes - maybe 4000 years (on average) - before being killed in an accident. Presumably trauma medicine and general levels of safety would improve and make this expected lifetime even longer. By that time one's biological memory would probably have run out of room long ago, so you'd be a newish person anyway.
Even in OA there are large sections of the population who reject uploading and backup technology; quite a few of those are biologically immortal, but without backup tech these bionts are at the mercy of fatal accidents. In our own society about 2% of humans are killed in accidents; this means a human might expect to live about 50 current-day lifetimes - maybe 4000 years (on average) - before being killed in an accident. Presumably trauma medicine and general levels of safety would improve and make this expected lifetime even longer. By that time one's biological memory would probably have run out of room long ago, so you'd be a newish person anyway.