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Erasmo Acosta
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From Earth to the Milky Way and Beyond
I've lived in the US over twenty years. Originally from south America, I was sponsored under the H1-B program by a small software firm in 1996, and came to California to work in the hi-tech industry. Reading my favorite sci-fi novels in English—which I reread many, many, times in Spanish as a teen—helped me learn the language. Although these days I only get to speak Spanish with my feline comp Read more of this blog post »
“Let’s not make too much of this. Even when you relive one of your own memories stored in the UKB, the transition is so smooth it feels like it was actually stored in your brain, but it’s not! Humans have a tiny storage capacity, for beings who live eternally.”
― K3+
― K3+
“Browsing through his pictures of the period, he found an image of Darwin, comfortably lying on a pillow by the fire with a peaceful, loving expression, like a ghostly presence from the past, staring at them across the unconquerable chasm of time.”
― K3+
― K3+
“Shouldn’t every human being be given the opportunity to escape oppression, an opportunity to grow and thrive, a chance for happiness?”
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― K3+
“Earth is humanity’s womb! Once it gives birth to a spacefaring civilization, the umbilical cord will be cut. That’s why Mars can’t be a replacement for Earth. Our future lies in space with virtually unlimited energy and room to grow.”
― K3+
― K3+
“An economy is an exchange system designed to manage and distribute limited resources across a population. But if a civilization has free access to more energy and construction materials than it can use, those resources will be virtually unlimited. Would such a society still need an economy to satisfy the needs of its population, or will economics become an extinct science?”
― K3+
― K3+
“For far too long, telepathy had been the monopoly of quacks and charlatans. But it would be for science to finally make the long-cherished dream a reality.”
― K3+
― K3+
“Let’s not make too much of this. Even when you relive one of your own memories stored in the UKB, the transition is so smooth it feels like it was actually stored in your brain, but it’s not! Humans have a tiny storage capacity, for beings who live eternally.”
― K3+
― K3+
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