ALL WILL BE ONE.

I like the idea of using microwormholes and/or entanglement repeaters as means of sending signals "faster" than light. Inflating a naturally-occurring wormhole to a size large enough to send an organic human through would take more energy than a hundred stars produce—and that's not even factoring in the energy budget…

A lot like watching two operating systems install each other.

Hmmm. I think Gregory Benford postulated life within an event horizon in...was it Furious Gulf, or Shining Bright Eternity?—the last books in the Galactic Core series.

The only kind of interstellar culture capable of producing a data-carrying electromagnetic signal powerful enough to travel even a handful of lightyears with even a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio would be so far technically beyond us that we wouldn't be able to even figure out the basic handshake protocol in the…

That would be just as boring, if not more so. At least gay folks are more fun to be around.

This is the most brilliant reply I have ever read. :)

Who the hell wants to read a thousand-page block of paper about two gay guys hanging out for sixty years? Well...maybe if they become cyborgs or something it could be cool. But right now, it just sounds like it's going to be the equivalent of Delaney shouting "GAY SEX IS COOL! GAY GAY GAY! I'M GAY! And also black.…

China Mieville is an AMAZING author...but someone needs to tell him nobody in the First World gives two shits and an f-word about Marxist "oh, pity the workers!" bullshit anymore.

Huh. Y'know, this show actually sounds like it could be pretty interesting now. I'm a sucker for anything with dinosaurs, though, and this sounds a lot like an inverted Jurassic Park.

0. M. G. 0000 looks fantastic! Any movie about the birth of a networked Human intelligence has *got* to be awesome.

Idaknow—I think this looks pretty...well, interesting! Alien "artists" taking the hipster art world for a ride? It's like the second coming of Andy Warhol. Only with tentacles (I hope).

I can't even begin to say how absolutely BAD-ASSED this book is! But if you're not familiar with transhumanist concepts, g33k culture, quantum physics (and computing), then you probably won't be able to grasp 80% of what's going on in the book. It has a VERY high bandwidth, too: reading it sometimes feels like…

Having finally seen the film, I can honestly say that I was too busy drooling over gun-wielding chicks in thigh-high stockings and explosions to even notice the Giant Message About Freedom (though I did pick up on it at the end).

Gott in Himmel, these are beautiful!

"Do you like watching mind-numbing entertainment that punches you in the face with a Special Message about how mind-numbing it is?"

This is brilliant!

FUSING HYDROGEN IS SO MAINSEQUENCE.

Whoah whoah whoah, hold on a second here. "The sense of touch is probably certain, but it's possible not all life forms would need to hear or smell." Hearing may not be strictly necessary for survival, but ANY AND ALL carbon-chemistry-based lifeforms have, almost by default, *some* kind of chemical sense that lets…

A superb post, sir! I have transferred digital facsimiles of all accessible texts for perusal on my hand-held electro-volume.