![]() ![]() There had been limit-shattering paradigmatic breakthroughs in life extension during the 2060s and 2070s. The experience of massive dieback, of septic terror and emptied cities, had permanently removed the culture's squeamishness. ![]() You were a credit risk and a bad business partner. If you were on a conspicuously public metabolic bender, then you weren’t the kind of person that people trusted nowadays. People who publicly destroyed their own health had a rather hard time staying wealthy-not because it took good health to become wealthy, but because it took other people’s confidence to make and keep money. Nowadays mere wealth guaranteed very little. Once upon a time, having money had almost guaranteed good health, or at least good health care. Careless people had become a declining interest group with a shrinking demographic share. The survivors were a permanently cautious and foresightful lot. hygienically careless people had died in their billions during the plagues of the 2030s and 2040s. I've enjoyed some of his other books more, but I found this one timely because of the future history he wrote: the world Sterling created is based almost entirely on the world's response to decades of plagues that decimated the population. Holy Fire, by Bruce Sterling, was published in 1996. ![]()
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