The Next 500 Years #3

To save life, we will need to engineer it. Notably, humans are already accidentally engineering life and directing evolution; now it is time to do it with volition, direction, and purpose.

Christopher E. Mason

Null Infinity - Chapter 6

Next chapter of Null Infinity can be found here:

Chapter 6

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Chapter 6

After a half hour the man turned off the road onto a smaller, dirt road. Harry got worried.

“Excuse me, is this the way to town?” asked Harry.

“No, I'm going to my ranch first, I have things I've got to get done today. You guys can fix you something to eat while I work. We'll go to town tomorrow.”

Harry didn't object, they needed food and there wasn't anything else he could do.

Another twenty minutes passed quietly while the man maneuvered over an ever worsening road, they pulled up to a small wooden house needing paint and several larger buildings also in need of paint.

“Okay folks, here we are,” he said, stopping the old truck.

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Time Wars: Complete

Now available for pre-order at the special price of 99 cents (regular $4.99) is the

ebook version of the Time Series trilogy of novels. Take advantage of the pre-order price as it will go to regular price after August 20th. Note: KU readers will have three months to read after publication, then it will become available at other online ebook retailers.

A paperback version will also be released on August 20th everywhere (I hope) but because of the economics of print-on-demand and the size of the book (> 700 pages) it may cost more than I would hope. But it is that or no paper copy at all, sorry.

Click the picture to see on Amazon, here is the blurb:

Time Wars: Complete: A Collection

A trilogy of novels about the discovery of a Quantum Field Theory of time.

Seven Minute Read Sample - To Tend And Watch Over

The following excerpt from the Future Chron novella To Tend And Watch

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Over introduces an artificial intelligence based on the human brain. These EMulated brains are copies of real human brains that some researchers think may be the path to true AI. This novella was written in January 2017, long before large language models.

 

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It had been more than a decade (human subjective time) since the Em had taken the job offered by the complex's government. The job had paid enough to allow the Em to grow his family and provide job security for them. The Em was very much a family man.

The contract had called for a test installation before widespread deployment. The Em and the government agreed upon a centrally located area for the Ems to occupy. Several towers were turned over to them. The Em relocated to one of them and immediately started having the infrastructure installed that would be needed to support a large nest of Ems.

When resources allowed, the Em imprinted or reanimated another member of his “family”. The Em called it “budding”. In each family, all new Ems were of the same imprinted brain but those reanimated also had their experiences since first budding restored. Each was given a particular area of the complex's infrastructure to tend and watch over. As more and more Ems came online the complex's residents begin to notice the changes.

The Next 500 Years #2

This [awareness of extinction of all life] gives us an awesome responsibility, power, and opportunity to become the universe's shepherds and guardians of all life-forms – quite literally a duty to the universe – to preserve life. This means we need to prevent the death of not only our species, but of all species on which we depend and any others we may find that are or were threatened –