http://io9.com/386982/where-is-the-posthuman-bertie-wooster
Link: Steal This Pitch: Where Is The Posthuman Bertie Wooster?.
(((No posthuman Bertie Wooster visible on the event horizon (except for writings by the ever-prescient Charles Stross)? Hmmm, could be a "Fermi's Paradox"
problem.)))
http://www.openthefuture.com/2008/05/pondering_fermi.html
http://www.openthefuture.com/2008/05/pondering_fermi.html
(...)
"The core of the Singularity argument is that those of us on the "left of the boom" side of one simply can't understand what life is like on the "right of the boom." The demands and concerns and requirements of a post-Singularity civilization wouldn't be based on a pre-Singularity pattern. That would apply to choices made for interstellar spread, too.
"This is, to me, an arguable possibility as to why we haven't encountered extraterrestrial intelligence. It's not dead certain, however – there could still be an interstellar culture that managed to avoid a Singularity, or still opted for colonization (or to turn every bit of non-stellar mass into computronium). But those have their own complexities, mostly revolving around the speed of light, evolution, and politics...."