I read a sci fi book, I think one of the Culture books, where if people needed to communicate but were too far away for space travel they'd send a high-level simulation of the person as information through hyperspace to have the conversation, then send the results back to the original person. Except sometimes the high level simulation would decide it wanted to keep doing it's own thing, so you'd end up with a fork of the person.
I read a sci fi book, I think one of the Culture books, where if people needed to communicate but were too far away for space travel they'd send a high-level simulation of the person as information through hyperspace to have the conversation, then send the results back to the original person. Except sometimes the high level simulation would decide it wanted to keep doing it's own thing, so you'd end up with a fork of the person.
cant send a text message but can sent a whole enslaved copy of yourself, damn
I might be wrong but it's in one of his non-Culture series - Matter.