Erica, Future Hi's technical guru has pointed us to an interesting novel teaser in which something called, "The Tool" allows people to live out all possible human experience in a single human lifetime (

http://www.barcelonareview.com/38/e_ra.htm

Paul,

Your insights into this new frontier are breathtaking.

Keep em coming!

David

i know this may not be the proper place for such a comment or discussion, but it's pretty late where i now am, and i've had a few drinks, so i'll post it anyway:

is copyright an artifact that will persist in the future to come ? and what's our stand toward legal artifacts rooted in 19th-20th century capitalism?

i mean since the notion of individual property and the wider notions of copy to use, right, and re-distribute will be profoundly affected (whether we like it or not) by the rise of singularity and the society of abundance it'll bring about if everything turns out well, then what's the purpose of insering this copyright notice under your post?

btw, your insight into this frontier is indeed breathtaking as david says above, however, i still ought to ask if something sounds weird, out-of-place or insane.

The more I read this blog the more I realize how well you combine ideas and perspectives, the Sans Ceiling Hypothesis is similar to what Michael A and some other futurists have been talking about that limitless possiblities of fun, excitement and nuanced sensory experience lie just around the corner or Singularity.

I would like to think that 1000 superintelligent years is not equal to a second of our years but than again I'm in denial of so many thinks that aren't paramount to my particular reality.

I don't know what the computronium is all about sounds pretty spooky.

George, I think copyright is obsolete. It's time has come and gone. I put the copyright notice down becuase I was told if I didn't there would be legal obstacles getting it published. My understanding is that publishers require that if any book material is published anywhere else, it must have a copyright notice or there are implications if it is included under a copyright in the future.

Personally, I just want to post everything freely. It's just a game, nothing more. If you want to use it for your own use, re-publish or mirror it somewhere else, be my guest! :-)

I don't understand what you mean when you say, "I still ought to ask if something sounds weird, out-of place or insane." What is out of place?

thanks for the clarification. perhaps i didn't express myself properly, but in a nutshell, i reckon that copyright is out-of-place. simple as that. that's what i meant. for if the future we seek to harness is premised on a massively distributed ability to circulate, copy and re-use the knowledge of others, then copyright, imho,is out-of-place.

having said that, i understand the problem your publishers have. but i also know that anything you publish anywhere is automatically published under copyright (unless you specify otherwise ie. public domain, FDL, CGPL, etc). that's the way the law is.

Maybe hyper-mediated Cosm experiences could allow us to as you said or alluded to break out of reality altogether, upgrade to reality 4.0 and live out our super-intelligent lives in a space akin to a worm hole or a parallel universe. I think you're a genius Paul I really do. Enough kissing your ass!