> The opening of that book is such a well put and apt description of... that, I've forced it on plenty of my friends.
I think the opening of that book stuck in my head as that is how digital beings and digital identity WILL BE DONE. It makes so much sense to me.
Although oddly, I remembered it being cryptographically sound and describing a way for the individual to have secure private keys to prove they are them (even to themselves) but I can’t find it when I reread the intro. I thought it was some distributed secure escrow with the Polis but I have have dreamt it.
Neal Stephenson’s “Fall; or, Dodge on Hell” goes into this a bit with the PURDAH but I think it’s more hand waving and tied to “the body has some unknowable thing that can be captured in a digital mind version.”
> Although oddly, I remembered it being cryptographically sound and describing a way for the individual to have secure private keys to prove they are them (even to themselves) but I can’t find it when I reread the intro. I thought it was some distributed secure escrow with the Polis but I have have dreamt it.
I'm pretty sure I read something like this too. So either we both dreamt it, or we're both mixing from another science fiction story. :D
The opening of that book is such a well put and apt description of... that, I've forced it on plenty of my friends.
Schild's Ladder also fantastic (yet similar.. like 30 Rock and Kimmy Schmidt? Still fun, but kinda "i've seen this before").
I think Permutation City was overrated.
I haven't read any of his other novels, have you?
Iain M Banks (Excession), Greg Egan (Diaspora, Dark Integers), and Charles Stross (Accelerando) are like a drug I'm still chasing that first high...
Recommendations welcome.