Quote:Not as such. Not yet, anyway. While I admit it's nice to see another singulatarian wandering the halls, the precis has a shallower acceleration curve than your standard Kurzweilian Hard Rapture, and the five years from Event One to the setting's "now" of 2012 hasn't been long enough for that kind of heavy change. Come back in a hundred years, maybe.
First off, handwavium basically shot all of humanity pass the event horizon of the Technological Singularity, with the Fens being truly Rapturous Nerds (a la Ken MacLeod).
Why is that? In meta terms, it's a nerfing for ease of access. If I was writing on my own, I'd be more willing to let things accelerate into outright transhumanism. But this is a group project, and since not everybody's familiar enough with the concepts it's better to keep things a bit more grounded, so to speak.
As Commisar, I don't have any particular objections to having shadowy transhuman groups rumored to be lurking in the Kuiper and Oort, or building strongholds around nearby dwarfs, but I'm leery of going for the heavy stuff like bekenstein computation or large-scale uploading just yet. Unless the consensus judges otherwise, of course.---
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