Reminds me of the Space Odyssey series: http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/2001.html http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/2001.html "In these, they roame

Reminds me of the Space Odyssey series: http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/2001.html http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Art/2001.html "In these, they roamed among the stars. They no longer built spaceships, they were spaceships. But the age of Machine-entities swiftly passed. In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light. They could become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny of matter. Into pure energy, therefore, they presently tranformed themselves; and on a thousand worlds, the empty shells they had discarded twitched for a while in a mindless dance of death, then crumbled into rust. Now they were lords of the galaxy, and beyond the reach of time. They could rove at will among the stars, and sink like a subtle mist through the very interstices of space. But despite their godlike powers, they had not wholly forgotten their origin, in the warm slime of a vanished sea."