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Greg Egan

Diaspora 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

Computers

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In the future, human life will largely exist within digital environments rather than physical bodies, with many people becoming software-based consciousnesses. This shift means that a significant part of humanity's descendants will be non-biological entities living inside computers.

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