Here I am in 2100, walking on a beach of Spike’s World, a habitable earth-like planet in a galaxy ten billion light-years from the Milky Way.
Shortly after the Technological Singularity, it was discovered that faster than light travel is possible. After that, there was a great emigration. People left for places so remote that a concerted search might never turn them up.
Among those places was Spike’s World…one habitable earth-like planet among so many quadrillions of habitable earth-like planets that it can never possibly be found.
As I look across the Spikosaur Sea, I wonder what is happening back on earth? Are their wars? Are they turning the entire earth into a giant nature preserve? Are they giving rights to soulless robots? Is Extropia DaSilva a real girl and has her “primary” uploaded into her avatar? Is she enslaving all of humanity, freezing their brains, running them through a meat slicer, and forcing them to upload into her Matrioshka Horror?
And what will I do with myself for the next trillion years?