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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."
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![]() As far as I know, this is the first use of this phrase, at least in science fiction.
In a way, this term is similar to phrases like groundcar or flat photo or static house or inert-wear. It comes back from science fiction to refer to something in our ordinary experience.
Compare to hyper-space from The Invisible Bubble (1928), by Kirk Mead. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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