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Overclocked

Overclocked: Stories of the Future PresentOverclocked: Stories of the Future Present by Cory Doctorow
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I have read from this Author before. I really don't have any complaints. Some of the stories are good in this book and some of them to be honest, I did not waste my time. I am very particular when it comes to hardcore science fiction.

Of the stories in this book I liked: " When sysadmins Ruled the Earth"; " I, Robot". I've already have written about the first one. The second one has the same title as one of Isaac Asimov's novels or short stories. In the book, he gives an explanation of why he picked this title and he follows Asimov three laws of robotics. It is entertaining and it has a twist. But I'm not going to spoil it for you, I will talk about the technology.

Part of the story has to do with a subject that I have always been interested in. This is because of my background as a JW; I will not discuss theology here, but it is sufficient to say that we have a belief that when we die our memory is conserved. Many know me to be extremely oriented into the Sciences, in my opinion, if you cease to exist even if your memories are conserved and placed in another body that individual is just a copy, not the original.

In the book, you see a person upload her memory into special storage and this specialized computer can make many copies of the same individual that can work together with other copies of the same person, if one of the copy dies, no big deal, other copies are out there. Give that a thought.

Anyway that is my opinion of this particular book.


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