Re: Lemme run an idea by you

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:20:43 +0000

At 07:32 PM 12/10/98 -0800, Eric Ruud wrote:

>Supposing somewhere far in the future humanity (or possibly even some other
>intelligent life form) develops time travel.
>They might, however, be able to upload personalities into a computer at the
>moment of death, thusly not changing anything in that reality.

Spider Robinson wrote a couple of novels based on just that premise. I believe DEATHKILLER was the first of the sequence. LIFEHOUSE. Maybe one more.

My own THE DREAMING DRAGONS used a version of this notion back in 1980.

Damien Broderick