Which means the first immortal beings—the first to experience genuine digital nostalgia, the first to be witnessed by themselves—will almost certainly be billionaires.
Not eternal life.
In the sprawling, ever-evolving universe of transhumanist software, version numbers are rarely poetic. They are functional, incremental, and dull. But every so often, a patch note emerges from the deep labs of neural interface engineering that reads less like a technical changelog and more like a philosophical ultimatum. Immortality v1.3-I-KnoW