Cory Doctorow has a story set in a society where cloning complete with mind restoration exists and is pretty quick and cheap. People make regular backups of themselves and then engage in dangerous activities like mountain skiing and whatnot. I forget which story it is: might be ‘Rapture of the Nerds’.
Can confirm, it is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Don’t forget deadheading! - everybody being able to basically switch off their brains to a kind of suspend state every time they get bored.
Yeah, could be that, judging by the summary on Wikipedia. I was so weirded out by the Disney World aspect of it, that I frankly forgot to follow the plot.
Don’t remember that, alas: Doctorow’s shorter stories and even some novels are pretty weird, and I was often too baffled by some aspects and details to remember the particulars. Need to give them a reread one of these days, and in text rather than in audio.
Cory Doctorow has a story set in a society where cloning complete with mind restoration exists and is pretty quick and cheap. People make regular backups of themselves and then engage in dangerous activities like mountain skiing and whatnot. I forget which story it is: might be ‘Rapture of the Nerds’.
Wasn’t that Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom?
Can confirm, it is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Don’t forget deadheading! - everybody being able to basically switch off their brains to a kind of suspend state every time they get bored.
Yeah, could be that, judging by the summary on Wikipedia. I was so weirded out by the Disney World aspect of it, that I frankly forgot to follow the plot.
did they cure pain???
Don’t remember that, alas: Doctorow’s shorter stories and even some novels are pretty weird, and I was often too baffled by some aspects and details to remember the particulars. Need to give them a reread one of these days, and in text rather than in audio.