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"I love that computer science has made mathematics into something like an experimental science. I was never all that good at proving things, but I love doing computer experiments."
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![]() You can't always get to your watch when you want to know the time, particularly when you are bound hand and foot, like Teg the Mentat Bashar in this scene:
Larry Niven has remarked that human beings will continue to seek solutions to particular problems, and that is one way to "predict the future" - so to speak. If this is true, then "What time is it?" is one of the most pressing issues facing humans.
I seem to remember that Molly, the razorgirl from William Gibson's Neuromancer, had some sort of modification to her optic nerve that put a timestamp on her visual field. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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