{"id":102828,"date":"2026-10-03T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102828"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:00:54","slug":"altered-carbon-immortality-breaks-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/altered-carbon-immortality-breaks-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Altered Carbon<\/em>: Immortality Breaks Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T1QgIXC-tVY?si=zzv-DQrevbiovUuu\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 29 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>Richard K. Morgan&#8217;s <em>Altered Carbon<\/em> builds on a simple premise, what if everyone&#8217;s consciousness was digitally transferable, regardless of class or wealth. The world he depicts has an undercurrent of dread permeating everything and hints at some even more terrifying possibilities. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n03:10 Not Human Anymore<br \/>\n06:25 Social Disconnect<br \/>\n11:07 Make it Personal<br \/>\n15:15 The Netflix Adaptation<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 29 May 2026 Richard K. Morgan&#8217;s Altered Carbon builds on a simple premise, what if everyone&#8217;s consciousness was digitally transferable, regardless of class or wealth. The world he depicts has an undercurrent of dread permeating everything and hints at some even more terrifying possibilities. 00:00 Intro 03:10 Not Human Anymore 06:25 Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,28,15],"tags":[1593,1213,139,85,101],"class_list":["post-102828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","category-technology","tag-feralhistorian","tag-kakistocracy","tag-psychology","tag-sf","tag-tv"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qKw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102829,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102828\/revisions\/102829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}