This is basically the world of Orion’s Arm. It’s “hard” interstellar STL sci-fi, yet normal humans are an infinite sea of furries, cyborgs, uploads, furry cyborg uploads, engaged in all sorts of transcendental… Well…
A theme is that the ruling intelligences are worried about the Fermi Paradox, and they seem to the like the idea of letting diversity run wild to “hedge their odds.”
This is basically the world of Orion’s Arm. It’s “hard” interstellar STL sci-fi, yet normal humans are an infinite sea of furries, cyborgs, uploads, furry cyborg uploads, engaged in all sorts of transcendental… Well…
A theme is that the ruling intelligences are worried about the Fermi Paradox, and they seem to the like the idea of letting diversity run wild to “hedge their odds.”