FOR THE Skids In The Transhuman Upcoming Jules is a young man barely a hundred years old. He’s lived long enough to start to see the treatment for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten dialects and create three symphonies…and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up home in Disney World. Disney World! The best artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Today in the keeping of the network of ‘ad-hocs’ who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches. Now, though, the ‘ad hocs’ are under attack. A new group has bought out the Hall from the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, that is an strike on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Even worse: it appears this brand-new group has already established Jules wiped out. This upsets him. (It’s only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Today it’s war….