Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Robinson, Kim Stanley (201577), Aurora, Retrieved on 2019-11-07
Folksonomies: science fiction

Memes

07 NOV 2019

 Space Colonists as Selfish Fools

Human beings live in ideas. That they were condemning their descendants to death and extinction did not occur to them, or if it did they repressed the thought, ignored it, and forged on anyway. They did not care as much about their descendants as they did about their ideas, their enthusiasms. Is this narcissism? Solipsism? Idiocy (from the Greek word idios, for self)? Would Turing acknowledge it as proof of human behavior? Well, perhaps. They drove Turing to suicide too. No. No. It was not...
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Told from the perspective of the AI running the ship.

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