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"Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together."
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Lem imagines that computers can be no larger than tiny grains of sand; a desert becomes a massively parallel-processing computer system.
Compare to the ultraminiature spy circuit from The Unknown by Christoper Anvil and wildcode from The Fractal Prince (2012) by Hannu Rajaniemi. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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