In Zendegi, Egan describes the early development stage of very advanced mind uploading technologies which, of course, at the beginning do not work well enough for practical use. This is frequently the case for emerging technologies, they often need more time than expected to take off.
This is changing very rapidly now, and it appears that e-books will soon become the norm. We have been talking of e-books for 20 years, but e-books never seemed ready to overtake paper books. This was one of the main reason why I selected this phone, but I will also buy a dedicated Kindle device because I will mainly buy e-books. I don’t own a Kindle device yet, but my HTC Desire HD phone has a screen big enough to read comfortably, and the Kindle reader is available for most platforms including Android. Some explanations and thoughts before starting with the review: I bought it a few minutes after midnight on January 1: I had decided to begin the new decade by reading this e-book. Greg Egan’s Zendegi has been the second book that I have bought in Kindle format (the first was David Eagleman’s Sum ).
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