[Ultra-Tech] Conservative hard SF... but not implausibly conservative

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

That's your key thing, there. Metastasizing and looking likely to metastasize soon are profoundly different in implications...

This leads to an item in the "What to Expect" list.

"Extremely deep understanding and predictive ability concerning all levels of life and life-like processes ranging from self-replicating proteins (or anything smaller than that if there is such) to macro-societies.".

One end of the spectrum is necessary for biological immortality and the other end for survival of a million years even for a clade.