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"The answer to the problem of information overload on the Net is reputations… engineer a system called a reputation server."
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Ray Cummings used the same idea in his 1936 story The Blood of the Moon:
The spiral to the dome-peak was only a few feet away... They mounted; the lightweight gas of the artificial darkness mounted with them. The turmoil of the deck now showed dimly down below. They reached the platform grid; but the dissipating gas had thinned so that they were discovered.
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