Meanwhile, their fortunes continue amassing it is a chilling vision of an unchanging 1 percent. The super-rich stash vaults full of cloned sleeves and frantically backup their stack data every 48 hours, ensuring that Real Death will, at worst, rob them of two days. So instead of creating something beautiful, humans use this technology to be thoughtless, selfish and violently cruel. What makes a life? Can the soul be downloaded? Just because we can live forever in some form, does it mean we should?īecause this is a dystopian future, it assumes the worst. The questions raised by this advancement are profound. “Real Death” occurs only if the stack is corrupted or smashed. If one has the funds to re-sleeve endlessly, they live forever. When a body dies, this slack can be “re-sleeved” into a new one. Every human has a chip embedded at the base of their skull, referred to as their “stack,” which records their experiences over the course of a life. Morgan, centers around the question of what happens when we reach levels of technology that can grant immortality. " Altered Carbon," based on the 2002 novel by Richard K.
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