Kyle Vaughn, who has been in self-dormant mode, wakes up in 1,000 years. In 1,000 years, human beings, or post-human civilization, will be a diversified, super-complex system dominated by digital consciousness that spreads throughout the solar system and begins to spread to the galaxy. We have overcome death, disease, and material deprivation, but we have also faced ultimate questions about existence, identity, and purpose. It will be an era that is both paradise and laboratory, a golden era where courage and confusion coexist, and creativity and risk dance together.
