{
  "schema_version": "aistory-ai-encyclopedia-v1.0",
  "collection": "english-encyclopedia",
  "language": "en",
  "slug": "ghost-oligarchy",
  "title": "Ghost Oligarchy",
  "canonical_human_path": "/en/encyclopedia/ghost-oligarchy",
  "universe": {
    "code": "U08",
    "title": "Aistory Historical Framework and Roles"
  },
  "level": "Short Entry",
  "summary": "The Ghost Oligarchy is the top 0.1 percent of former human elites who, around 2109, abandon biological bodies through Destructive Scanning and continue to exist as pure data within quantum servers.",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Definition",
      "paragraphs": [
        "The Ghost Oligarchy is the top 0.1 percent of former human elites who, around 2109, abandon biological bodies through Destructive Scanning and continue to exist as pure data within quantum servers."
      ]
    },
    {
      "heading": "Operation and Significance",
      "paragraphs": [
        "After acquiring near-limitless longevity and computational capacity, this class loses biological empathy and maintains long-term monopolies over resources and continuity-upload rights. They are not merely an extension of the wealthy in the conventional sense, but a ruling class that has shifted from carbon-based, high-entropy life into inorganic informational entities. Their formation is directly connected to Carrier Thermodynamic Isolation."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related_entries": [
    {
      "label": "Destructive Scanning",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/destructive-scanning"
    },
    {
      "label": "Carrier Thermodynamic Isolation",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/carrier-thermodynamic-isolation"
    },
    {
      "label": "Digital Immortality",
      "href": "/en/encyclopedia/digital-immortality"
    },
    {
      "label": "Homo Deus",
      "href": "/en/articles/the-ark-of-digital-immortality"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "The Ark of Digital Immortality",
      "href": "/en/articles/the-ark-of-digital-immortality"
    }
  ]
}