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"[Science fiction is] anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out."
- Gregory Benford
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| Localizer | ||
| Devices that work together to form ad-hoc networks. |
See also the material for dustmote.
| Localizers were a basic tool of an technical civilization. The tiny devices chirped their impulse codes at one another, using time of flight and distributed algorithms to accurately locate each participating device. Several thousand of them formed the positioning grid on the rubble pile. Together they were a kind of low-level network, providing information on the orientation, position, and relative velocity of the electric jets and the rubble. |
| Technovelgy from A Deepness in the Sky,
by Vernor Vinge. Published by Tor in 1999 Additional resources -
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