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"I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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| Hypno-Encyclopedic Techniques | ||
| If you plan to live for centuries, you need to organize your memories. |
| I’ve used Andy Libby’s hypno-encyclopedic techniques—and they’re good—and also learned tier storage for memory I didn’t need every day, with keying words to let a tier cascade when I did need it, like a computer, and I have had my brain washed of useless memories several times in order to clear those file drawers for new data. |
| Technovelgy from Time Enough For Love,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Putnam in 1973 Additional resources -
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Thanks to Winchell Chung of Atomic Rockets for the timely note on this quote.
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