12-17-2015, 10:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-17-2015, 10:46 PM by stevebowers.)
Yes, we used uplift exclusively in the early days of the project. We contacted David Brin, or possibly just his agent, to see if that was okay with him, but they wrote back and told us the term was copyrighted. So we developed the term 'provolve' (and at the same time developed the term Vec to avoid conflicts with the Star Wars universe over 'droid', which might still lurk in the dark corners of OA somewhere).
Brin is actually a very nice chap, and I've had brief contact with him on the 'net; he's a bit of an expert on the Fermi Paradox, one of my own interests. Somehow I doubt he really objected to this usage, and several other sci-fi authors and scenarios use the 'uplift' term, so I doubt he really does have copyright on it. But I'm rather fond of 'provolution', since it implies an act of evolution rather than just a technical fix.
All instances of 'uplift' changed to 'provolved' and derived terms.
Brin is actually a very nice chap, and I've had brief contact with him on the 'net; he's a bit of an expert on the Fermi Paradox, one of my own interests. Somehow I doubt he really objected to this usage, and several other sci-fi authors and scenarios use the 'uplift' term, so I doubt he really does have copyright on it. But I'm rather fond of 'provolution', since it implies an act of evolution rather than just a technical fix.
All instances of 'uplift' changed to 'provolved' and derived terms.