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"As opposed to illiteracy, where you can't read, aliteracy means that you can but you just can't be bothered. They say aliteracy is on the rise these days."
- Peter Watts
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| Life Bank | ||
| A storage facility with the genetic material that was produced by Earth's ecosystem. |
Can we take some of the Earth's biosphere with us if we are forced to leave our planet?
| There had been a time when wheat, soybeans, potatoes, corn and rice had been the major foods of the human race. Now there was no one alive who had ever seen them.
But they existed in the Life Bank, as did virtually every plant and animal that existed on Old Earth. |
| Technovelgy from The Ophiuchi Hotline,
by John Varley. Published by Quantum Science Fiction in 1977 Additional resources -
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Compare to the genetic ark from Earth, a 1990 novel by David Brin.
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| Tsunami Forecasts Improved By Ionosphere Signals |
| EctoLife Concept Video Artificial Womb For Baby Mass Production |
| T. Gondii And The Leaders Of The Pack |
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