@fourfourfun has excellent taste. I'm a huge synth/electronic/chiptune head.
I think that is the biggest sign that this system is deeply flawed. So many people have forgotten how to play. What it was like to just enjoy yourself when you were a kid. To pursue something not for profit, but just for fun. I've been rediscovering this for a couple years now and I can tell you it makes a difference in how I feel.
Yeah, Diaspora just really makes you think about all the possibilities that await human kind. It seems to start off with all limits completely gone and then it shows you what that could really mean.
When I hear FUD about AI and cybernetics and our robot overlords of the future, I hold on to that book.
" It seems to start off with all limits completely gone and then it shows you what that could really mean." -- ya you feel like you're starting at 100% and then you end up at 10,000% lol