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.
[Okay. I was thinking that a lot of these groups would be second generation, anyway, after humanity had some time to settle down and put down strange roots. A few of these groups could be done in the "here and now" though.
I'm thinking in particular the Blakes, Cold Shatter, Satanist (have to come up with a better name), maybe the Black Monoliths and Kuiper Brain, though by this point the Brain would have consumed only half an asteroid or comet.]
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.
[Okay.
Oh, and here're some more ideas:
Meat-puppet conversion: Does your AI wish to feel human? Are gynoids and androids just not doing it? Is your AI multiple-cognitive capable and clockspeed variable? Then you and they might want to try Meat-Puppet Conversion! For only a few grams of wavehandium, they can have the sensuous experience of a meat-puppet! Guaranteed made of non-clone genetic material but true, first-gen decanted with customized mitochondria and y-chromosomes! Customizable phsyiognomy! Comes equipped with private FTL-com for the true meat-puppet experience and a maintenance creche! A two-hundred year warranty available! Order now!
CHONP:The true food for the true Fen. Made from one-hundred percent comets! Has the recent food embargo from Earth gotten you down? Tired of eating recycled foods over and over again? Try CHONP! Comes in a variety of styles and flavors, including CHONP-Meat, CHONP-Veggie, and CHONP-Other! It's made from rocks and ice, so you know it's tasty.
Baley Security: Private Security/Detective Agency, serve as police officers or private army. Mercenary, officious, arrogant, and willing to get into bed with anyone, but also adheres to strict standards of evidence, due process and human rights. Rumored to be truly headed up by a super-AI that's trying to control the course of humanity. Does not, repeat NOT, have agents dressed in skimpy bikinis that go around blowing stuff up with a giant antennaed cat.
Slans: group of fens that tried to get the Slan-gene modifications and mostly succeeded. They have the tendrils, the peak physical conditioning, and even the "telepathy." Unfortunately, the telepathy turned out to be integrated FTL comms in their brains that allow them to "read" the minds of fellow Slans and with any FTL comm-capable computer. Also, supercilious jerks that, to a person, have an over-inflated martyr complex that causes them to whine incessently.
]
-murmur
[Okay. I was thinking that a lot of these groups would be second generation, anyway, after humanity had some time to settle down and put down strange roots. A few of these groups could be done in the "here and now" though.
I'm thinking in particular the Blakes, Cold Shatter, Satanist (have to come up with a better name), maybe the Black Monoliths and Kuiper Brain, though by this point the Brain would have consumed only half an asteroid or comet.]
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.
[Okay.
Oh, and here're some more ideas:
Meat-puppet conversion: Does your AI wish to feel human? Are gynoids and androids just not doing it? Is your AI multiple-cognitive capable and clockspeed variable? Then you and they might want to try Meat-Puppet Conversion! For only a few grams of wavehandium, they can have the sensuous experience of a meat-puppet! Guaranteed made of non-clone genetic material but true, first-gen decanted with customized mitochondria and y-chromosomes! Customizable phsyiognomy! Comes equipped with private FTL-com for the true meat-puppet experience and a maintenance creche! A two-hundred year warranty available! Order now!
CHONP:The true food for the true Fen. Made from one-hundred percent comets! Has the recent food embargo from Earth gotten you down? Tired of eating recycled foods over and over again? Try CHONP! Comes in a variety of styles and flavors, including CHONP-Meat, CHONP-Veggie, and CHONP-Other! It's made from rocks and ice, so you know it's tasty.
Baley Security: Private Security/Detective Agency, serve as police officers or private army. Mercenary, officious, arrogant, and willing to get into bed with anyone, but also adheres to strict standards of evidence, due process and human rights. Rumored to be truly headed up by a super-AI that's trying to control the course of humanity. Does not, repeat NOT, have agents dressed in skimpy bikinis that go around blowing stuff up with a giant antennaed cat.
Slans: group of fens that tried to get the Slan-gene modifications and mostly succeeded. They have the tendrils, the peak physical conditioning, and even the "telepathy." Unfortunately, the telepathy turned out to be integrated FTL comms in their brains that allow them to "read" the minds of fellow Slans and with any FTL comm-capable computer. Also, supercilious jerks that, to a person, have an over-inflated martyr complex that causes them to whine incessently.
]
-murmur