In your earlier book The Age of M people upload their brains into computers and then make many copies of themselves. Is this your solution to Fermi's paradox? Namely where are all the aliens? Have they all done this? No. So my book about The Age Of M is about this future scenario where brain emulations become feasible and cheap and then basically take over the economy. That economy would grow much faster than ours and so it would even more quickly become visible on a cosmic scale unless it destroys itself.

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