Disassemble the moon. Scoop out the core of the earth. Vent gases from the sun for fuel. Cover Jupiter and Saturn with mass drivers, and use their mass to give initial momentum. Drag most of the asteroid belt along, after turning the asteroids into habitats. Escape from the gravity well of the sun, in a massive spaceship.
Maintain genetic diversity by automated processes, growing new individuals from archives of the current population of earth whenever genetic diversity drops too low. Improve and modify the human race, to allow it to function more optimally outside of the gravity well.
Implant computers in their heads, to allow them to function better, to access more data, to think instead of remembering. Modify the neural pathways to promote behavioral patterns which will be more optimal in this new environment. Identify sociopaths and potential murders, and place them in positions where they will do no harm.
Eliminate the corporation, and scarcity economics. For this project to succeed matter assemblers must become ubiquitous; why than should anything but creativity be in need? Create an artificial economy, based on the flow of money which decreases in value with time, and the artificial influx of cash to each individual equally. If one wishes more money, one must create something which others are willing to buy. Punish group-think; have automated rewards for creating and selling something, which decrease or even become negative if an idea is too similar to an older one.
Covert as much of the mass as possibly to computronium, allow it to form the walls and floors of rooms, and upload anyone who wishes. Allow them to form the core of the system's guidance, thinking far faster than normal humans. To prevent bloat, place an artificial time limit on how long uploads may live (or be active, anyways), coming into effect whenever there are too many. Something that takes away processing power from any who do not contribute back to society for too long.
Chart a path for planets similar to earth, which could be teraformed and colonized. Seed them with complex systems, controlled by volunteer uploads or automated processes, to build a world for humans and then reincarnate the uploads and grow new bodies to populate it. Remain in contact with the mother ship for as long as possible during this process.
For useless systems, steal more fuel from the sun, and then seed them with computronium-assembling nanobots and more upload volunteers, who need more power than they have, or want it for a project. Once again, keep in contact with them for as long as possible; build orbital laser arrays to allow for year-lagged conversation between worlds, and investigate the possiblities of the greation of a point-to-point wormhole network to allow for even faster communications (see: Accelerando, by Charles Stross).
If point-to-point wormholes become possible, colonize the empty spaces between the stars, knitting a world out of cylinders and portals, creating backup networks to allow the human species to endure for as long as possible, albeit in an entirely new form (see: Glasshouse, also by Charles Stross).
In fact, just read all of Stross's works. I suggest that you start with Accelerando (it's available as an e-book for free the last I checked), then continue on into Glasshouse, Singularity Sky, The Atrocity Archives, and Halting State. See his website for more of his writing.
Yes, I admit it, he's one of my favorite authors right now, along with Terry Pratchet and Douglas Adams. I'm able to read most of their books over and over again without getting bored, which is fairly uncommon for me (well, not the same book over and over - although perhaps some of Stross's - but the same set of books).
Anyways, what was I talking about? Ah, yes:
Escape the gravity well. Set humanity free from reliance upon a single world. Destroy scarcity economics, allow anyone to do anything they want to, as long as it does not prevent others from doing anything they want to (so: no murder, unless both agree. No rape, assult, theft, etc., with the same secondary rule applying. I'm not sure how, or if, that should apply to information; but than, I'm a pirate, so my veiws are fairly biased.). Destroy religion, or at least eliminate the aspects of it which go against science (you can have your god, but only if you agree that it doesn't really care about us, and created the universe ~14 billion years ago and then buggered off). Transcend the limitations of humanity.
Oh, and I'm not planning to take the earth with me, just the moon. Anyone who wants to stay can - the plan might even turn into reassembling one of the moons of the gas giants, but whatever. In fact, given that it would be impossible to take everyone ... well, whatever. Use a system of merit, and, of course, leave behind the technology to allow anyone else to do the same - and, since everyone would have this technology, I would expect that many people would.
Now, keep in mind that none of this is going to be possible for at least 50 years, problably nearer to 100 or 200, given the way humanity is going right now. Does that give a bit of understanding as to why I'm a bit irritated at humans most of the time? I get to live late enough to know what can and will happen, but too early to actually see it happen.
Eh, at least I'm near the bioengineering revolution. And I will not be a passive participant in it.
Maintain genetic diversity by automated processes, growing new individuals from archives of the current population of earth whenever genetic diversity drops too low. Improve and modify the human race, to allow it to function more optimally outside of the gravity well.
Implant computers in their heads, to allow them to function better, to access more data, to think instead of remembering. Modify the neural pathways to promote behavioral patterns which will be more optimal in this new environment. Identify sociopaths and potential murders, and place them in positions where they will do no harm.
Eliminate the corporation, and scarcity economics. For this project to succeed matter assemblers must become ubiquitous; why than should anything but creativity be in need? Create an artificial economy, based on the flow of money which decreases in value with time, and the artificial influx of cash to each individual equally. If one wishes more money, one must create something which others are willing to buy. Punish group-think; have automated rewards for creating and selling something, which decrease or even become negative if an idea is too similar to an older one.
Covert as much of the mass as possibly to computronium, allow it to form the walls and floors of rooms, and upload anyone who wishes. Allow them to form the core of the system's guidance, thinking far faster than normal humans. To prevent bloat, place an artificial time limit on how long uploads may live (or be active, anyways), coming into effect whenever there are too many. Something that takes away processing power from any who do not contribute back to society for too long.
Chart a path for planets similar to earth, which could be teraformed and colonized. Seed them with complex systems, controlled by volunteer uploads or automated processes, to build a world for humans and then reincarnate the uploads and grow new bodies to populate it. Remain in contact with the mother ship for as long as possible during this process.
For useless systems, steal more fuel from the sun, and then seed them with computronium-assembling nanobots and more upload volunteers, who need more power than they have, or want it for a project. Once again, keep in contact with them for as long as possible; build orbital laser arrays to allow for year-lagged conversation between worlds, and investigate the possiblities of the greation of a point-to-point wormhole network to allow for even faster communications (see: Accelerando, by Charles Stross).
If point-to-point wormholes become possible, colonize the empty spaces between the stars, knitting a world out of cylinders and portals, creating backup networks to allow the human species to endure for as long as possible, albeit in an entirely new form (see: Glasshouse, also by Charles Stross).
In fact, just read all of Stross's works. I suggest that you start with Accelerando (it's available as an e-book for free the last I checked), then continue on into Glasshouse, Singularity Sky, The Atrocity Archives, and Halting State. See his website for more of his writing.
Yes, I admit it, he's one of my favorite authors right now, along with Terry Pratchet and Douglas Adams. I'm able to read most of their books over and over again without getting bored, which is fairly uncommon for me (well, not the same book over and over - although perhaps some of Stross's - but the same set of books).
Anyways, what was I talking about? Ah, yes:
Escape the gravity well. Set humanity free from reliance upon a single world. Destroy scarcity economics, allow anyone to do anything they want to, as long as it does not prevent others from doing anything they want to (so: no murder, unless both agree. No rape, assult, theft, etc., with the same secondary rule applying. I'm not sure how, or if, that should apply to information; but than, I'm a pirate, so my veiws are fairly biased.). Destroy religion, or at least eliminate the aspects of it which go against science (you can have your god, but only if you agree that it doesn't really care about us, and created the universe ~14 billion years ago and then buggered off). Transcend the limitations of humanity.
Oh, and I'm not planning to take the earth with me, just the moon. Anyone who wants to stay can - the plan might even turn into reassembling one of the moons of the gas giants, but whatever. In fact, given that it would be impossible to take everyone ... well, whatever. Use a system of merit, and, of course, leave behind the technology to allow anyone else to do the same - and, since everyone would have this technology, I would expect that many people would.
Now, keep in mind that none of this is going to be possible for at least 50 years, problably nearer to 100 or 200, given the way humanity is going right now. Does that give a bit of understanding as to why I'm a bit irritated at humans most of the time? I get to live late enough to know what can and will happen, but too early to actually see it happen.
Eh, at least I'm near the bioengineering revolution. And I will not be a passive participant in it.
[ Sidenote: I've been posting a lot more recently; I wonder why. ]
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