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FogoCanard t1_j10tp46 wrote

any books/movies on this? I feel like this is man's final form. A lot of us have the idea. It's just a matter of execution(might take another couple hundred years). What happens if we get in disputes though? Someone can delete another person's data and they would cease from existence?

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GrabMyCactus t1_j10vchh wrote

That's kind of what happens when someone is murdered. :)

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ElderWandOwner t1_j10vy3o wrote

Altered carbon on netflix is somewhat based on this idea. I don't think they use it much for space travel though.

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LegendaryRed t1_j114o1o wrote

Exception on Netflix "In a distant future where humans are forced to leave Earth, a spacecraft carrying a 3D-printed crew of specialists is sent to terraform a new planet."

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wild_b_cat t1_j11en9k wrote

Great books on this:

Accelerando by Charles Stross Ken MacLeod’s Corporation Wars.

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