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Yes, this is going to get messy. The old and young fighting over resources. I remember years ago reading a short Sci Fi story posted somewhere. I wish I had
by e40 8y ago
Yes, this is going to get messy. The old and young fighting over resources.
I remember years ago reading a short Sci Fi story posted somewhere. I wish I had saved it. It was in the form of a letter from a father, who had transferred his consciousness to the cloud, to a son who was toiling to pay taxes so the people living in the machine could continue to relax in the afterlife.
- stevesearer 8y agoFor some reason I felt the need to google hunt for this book based solely on your description. Is it The Uploaded? ... perhaps not since you said short story "In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn’t stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support digital Heaven. For one orphan that just isn't enough – he wants more for himself and his sister than a life slaving away for the dead. It turns out that he's not the only one who wants to reset the world..." https://www.amazon.com/Uploaded-Ferrett-Steinmetz/dp/0857667173 https://www.amazon.com/Uploaded-Ferrett-Steinmetz/dp/0857667...