Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon is a show that takes place many years into the future where death can no longer exist between certain societies. I’m saying certain societies because only the rich (known as the “meths” in the show) can afford to continuously avoid death. See in the future, everyone has a “stack” which is located at the very top of their spinal cord.

Inside the stack is a human mind, in other words your consciousness. To make it easier just look at the stack as an SD card that holds all your memories. Now let’s get to the juicy part of it, your stack can be placed into any “sleeve” (a sleeve is a human body) and in turn you would be alive and well except you’re in a completely different body, pretty simple. However, if your stack gets destroyed, let’s say for example someone shoots u right in the neck which in turn damages your stack, now that’s real death there’s no coming back from that. However, the filthy rich can afford to upload their consciousness to the cloud (satellites that hold their consciousness), so even after someone shoots their stack, they can simply reupload their consciousness via the cloud and re-sleeve into another body. I found this show interesting because human bodies are seen as machines, quite literally actually. companies try their hardest to biometrically produce the best possible human being so the rich can buy them to re-sleeve into them. It’s ironic how in that portrayed future the human is defined as a stack, a piece of machinery, instead of a live organism. While on the other hand, the human body becomes a suit, disposable and classed based on the preference of the stack. The definition of what’s human and non-human switch completely. I’ve linked the trailer down below for anyone interested in seeing the show.