The truly rich can afford to clone themselves and keep a small stock on hand for emergencies, complete with a period off-site stack backup in case of catastrophe. At the end of the day, most people refrain from more than a couple lifetimes.
Most can, at least once, but aging takes a toll. You die, they download your stack and stick you in a new “sleeve” or body…if you can afford it. Everyone on Earth is implanted with a cortical stack, a small disk at the base of your skull that stores everything that makes you…well, you. I’d never heard of it before! Not sure how that happened, but I’ve rectified it now.īy the twenty-fifth century, mankind has conquered death. And yes, I did go find a copy of this as a result of seeing trailers for the Netflix series. On the other hand, this is pretty solidly in the noir category, so if the staples of that genre are going to put you off, maybe give this one a miss.
The first season consisted of 10 episodes and was released in February 2018.This is probably the most interesting idea for a science fiction story that I’ve encountered in quite a while, and if you can handle all the grimy, squalid detail of this cyberpunk masterpiece, I heartily recommend it. Kalogridis said the R-rated material combined with a complex narrative made Altered Carbon a difficult sell to studios. Netflix ordered it to series in January 2016, more than a decade after showrunner Laeta Kalogridis initially expressed interest in making it into a feature film. Takeshi was the sole surviving soldier of those defeated in an uprising against the new world order 250 years prior.Īltered Carbon is based on the 2002 sci-fi novel of the same name by Richard K. Physical bodies are called "sleeves," disposable vessels that can accept any "stack." Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman), a political operative with mercenary skills, wakes up 250 years after his sleeve is terminated, and he is given the choice to either spend the rest of time in prison for his crimes, or to help solve the murder of one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy). In the future, a person's memories have been decanted into "cortical stacks," storage devices of alien design which have been reverse engineered, duplicated en masse, and surgically inserted into the vertebrae at the back of the neck. The series takes place over 350 years in the future, in the year 2384.
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