Nine
years ago, I wrote a short story about people uploading their consciousness to
computers and becoming a new species. At
the time, I knew a guy who – out of boredom, or something – was teaching
himself Latin. I asked him for help in
naming this new species. What he came up
with was Homo narratus, which he said
meant “man recorded” since the Romans didn’t have a word for uploaded. Anyway,
Published on July 07, 2020 07:00