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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
- William Gibson
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| Indestructible Contract | ||
| Legal document in which can't be easily altered or damaged. |
Fascinating idea for creating a unique, unchangeable document.
| "The single sheet he held, and even the words and signatures upon it, were all integral parts of a single giant molecule which in itself was well-nigh indestructible and could not be altered or tampered with short of outright destruction. As for destruction itself- Donal was quite sure that there was nothing aboard this ship that could in any way burn, shred, dissolve, in any other fashion obliterate it." |
| Technovelgy from Dorsai!,
by Gordon R. Dickson. Published by Ace Books in 1960 Additional resources -
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In the Internet age, online documents can be easily altered. Our best defense against a 1984-style attempt to alter the recorded past is to print out thousands of hard copies and put them in homes and libraries all over America. However, even hard copy counterfeiting is easier, thanks to advances in printer technology. One day, we will need technology like this.
Fans of Philip K. Dick might be thinking of truffle skins, PKD's way of dealing with counterfeiting, from his 1965 novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
Thanks to Gatomon41 for contributing this item.
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