We live in extraordinary times- let’s just hope they don’t follow the path of the Bob series and become interesting times! Hell, if you follow Kurzweil, it’s more like 30 years ( tops). 100 years from now, this could very well be just ‘fiction’. The biggest hold this series has on me is that its premises are strongly founded in our current reality and uses highly likely if not inevitable extrapolations of current, real technologies, the ‘subspace’ based techs notwithstanding. You weren’t incorrect in any general sense with your statement. On the same vein, although it was implied, given that OP seems a bit new to the Von Neumann probe and 3D printing concepts, I feel it’s important to point out that the books printers ‘print’ any element at the atomic level- not just plastic and polymers. Von Neumann died in 1957- I cant remember who the speaker in Vegas was, but I believe it was just a minutely described con-presenter stereotype.Īlso, we DO have printers today that print metal/concrete/and other non-plastic materials, but in the same low resolution globules as the plastic, ‘consumer-grade’ versions. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.I hate to be pedantic, but will be anyway. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.

If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.īob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1Ģ016 | Fiction & Poetry | Science Fiction/Fantasyīob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure.

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