[Johnny1A.2]

Isaac Asimov wrote a short story years ago, called Eyes Do More Than See. The premise is that trillions of years from now, the human race still exists, in the form of transcended creatures along the lines of the Firstborn from 2001 or the like. The transcendence happened in our relatively near future, because the story opens with the line:

"After hundreds of billions of years, he suddenly thought of himself as Ames. Not the wavelength combination which, though all the universe was now the equivalent of Ames -- but the sound itself. A faint memory came back of the sound waves he no longer heard and no longer could hear."

Another immortal entity is named Brock. There is an implication in the story that Brock was Ames' wife, when they were still mortal.

The story is tragic, though, not hopeful.