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"I don't know why I write science fiction. The voices in my head told me to!"
- Charles Stross
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| Ilse | ||
| The first intelligent ship brain. |
I think this is the first example of the intelligent ship brain.
| Ilse's designed span exceeded one hundred centuries. And though her brain was iron and germanium doped with arsenic, and her heart was a tiny cloud of hydrogen plasma, Ilse was one of Earth's creatures... Ilse's earliest memory was a fragment, amounting to no less than fifteen seconds. Someone, perhaps inadvertently, brought her to consciousness as she sat atop her S-5N booster. |
| Technovelgy from Long Shot,
by Vernor Vinge. Published by Conde Nast Publications in 1972 Additional resources -
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