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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Worldweb All Thing | ||
| Network connects billions of people in real time. |
| Again it was in the final hours of an OCS:HTN simulation. By then Kasad had learned that the exercises were something more than mere simulations. The OCS:HTN was part of the Worldweb All Thing, the real-time network which governed Hegemony politics, fed information to tens of billions of data-hungry citizens, and had evolved a form of autonomy and consciousness all its own. More than a hundred and fifty planetary data-spheres mingled their resources within the framework created by six thousand omega-class AIs to allow the OCS:HTN to function. |
| Technovelgy from Hyperion,
by Dan Simmons. Published by Doubleday in 1989 Additional resources -
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