3.34 avg rating — 124 ratings

"Memories with Maya describes:

1)A complete method and the technology for “tele-travel” – A was for people to spawn Digital Surrogates of themselves that can interact with live people.

2) Digital Afterlife: Digital Surrogates [Dirrogates] of people no longer living, capable of occupying the same time-space as the living relative of the deceased, running “daily” routines – the next best option to true sentience."

4.14 avg rating — 10,446 ratings

"Nexus and Crux have reasonably detailed description of the “neural dust” technology on which the Nexus drug is based, and its applications."

4.04 avg rating — 20,990 ratings

"Nexus and Crux have reasonably detailed description of the “neural dust” technology on which the Nexus drug is based, and its applications."

3.49 avg rating — 1,560 ratings

"Egan’s Zendegi has good descriptions of the (admittedly very primitive) mind uploading (actually “sideloading”) technology in the story."