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BONUS: Staying Behind
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:20:52
Publish Date: 2023-05-15 09:00:00
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In a dystopian future, humanity is faced with a choice: upload your consciousness into a machine and live forever in paradise, or stay behind and continue being human as we've come to know it. In his short story "Staying Behind," Ken Liu explores a possible future that feels all too real. In the process the story asks big questions about the nature of humanity: what does it mean to be human? What makes life meaningful? Is progress a virtue or vice?

Read the story here: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_10_11/ 

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