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"When you're making a revolution in cyberspace, things look rather different from the way the 1980s cyberpunks wrote it."
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Robert Heinlein described a variety of reasons that you might not enjoy space in his excellent 1939 short story Misfit:
"But if you behave yourself, and listen to the advice of the old spacemen, you'll come out of it strong and healthy, with a little credit stored up in the bank, and a lot of knowledge and experience that you wouldn't get in forty years on Earth. You'll be men, and you'll know it..."
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