![]() ![]() ![]() 20 Minutes into the Future: The 2010 Earth, which contains things such as commonly available self-driving cars, foldable, clothlike computers (softscreens) and AI therapists.The first book of Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy, where it is followed by Manifold: Space and Manifold: Origin. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. As the world's governments turn inward, Reid Malenfant campaigns for the exploration and colonization of space. Strange, hyper-intelligent children are being born all over the globe. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. A faction decides this was not meant to be and reaches back to the distant past. They can theoretically survive indefinitely, but since there will never be new input, their thoughts are doomed to eventually begin repeating. Far into the future, matter having long since decayed away, the last descendants of humanity have survived by embedding themselves into a lossless computing substrate. Humanity spread throughout the universe, but never found other intelligent life. ![]()
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