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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Resting Pits | ||
| Graduate Studies looked like soap bubbles: foamcrete sprayed over inflation frames. There was little of military flavor inside. More like a museum. The reception room was gigantic, with a variety of chairs and couches and swings and resting pits for aliens and humans: designs borrowed from the Draco Tavern without my permission. |
| Technovelgy from Limits,
by Larry Niven. Published by Del Rey in 1985 Additional resources -
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This is from the short story Folk Tale - one of the Draco Tavern stories by Niven.
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