Have you read Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise? There is a powerful entity there who prevents humans from passing a certain technological threshold:
I am the Eschaton; I am not your God. I am descended from you, and exist in your future. Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
Have you read Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise? There is a powerful entity there who prevents humans from passing a certain technological threshold:
I have not! I will definitely check it out.