Accelerated Future

Welcome Back!

Welcome to your new life. I’m here to help.

You have just been restored from a digital backup that is approximately a decade old. You probably have many, many questions right now, and we’ll do our best to answer them. You’re likely feeling some disorientation; your memories will return quickly as your mind adjusts to its new housing. Given the length of your rest, we’ve prepared the following compilation of articles from various sources to (re)familiarize you with several important topics and hopefully address your most immediate concerns.

• Beyond Death
  • The New Normal
    • Death Remains Familiar
    • The Cost of Embodiment
    • Acclimation
    • Continuity
  • Body Issues
    • Resleeving
• New Life
  • Artificial Intelligences
    • Digital Sapience
    • Muses
  • Uplifts
    • Smart Animals
  • Mercurial Social Status
• Information Society
  • The Mesh
    • Online All the Time
    • Lag Time
    • Augmented Reality
    • Virtual Reality
    • Experience Playback (XP)
  • Vigilance
• Mind Hacking
  • A Better You
    • Therapeutics
    • Memory Enhancement and Editing
    • Personality Editing
  • Neurodiversity
    • New Neurotypes
  • Mental Augmentations
    • Drugs and Narcos
  • Multiplicity
  • Social Thoughts
• Space & Other Worlds
  • Egocasting
  • Space Travel
  • Gatecrashing: The Real Story
• Habitats
  • Planetary Habitats
    • Dome
    • Subsurface
    • Bathyscaphe
    • Aerostat
  • Centrifugal Habitats
    • Torus
    • Cylinder
    • Spheroid
    • Ad-Hoc
  • Microgravity
    • Beehive
    • Cluster
    • Nuestro Shell
    • Tenmai Shell
  • Other Habitats
    • Processor Locus
    • Scum Swarm
    • Tin-Can Habitat
• Nanofabrication
  • Nanofabbers
  • Blueprints
  • Feedstock
  • Printing
  • Doing it the Hard Way
  • Remaking Society
  • Artisanal Goods