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Every time I think about Google, I remember Deepness in the sky/Vernor Vinge 's Emergent culture and how they were able to invent a brain device that created wh
by myth_drannon 16y ago
Every time I think about Google, I remember Deepness in the sky/Vernor Vinge 's Emergent culture and how they were able to invent a brain device that created what they called Focus , device that induces an obsession with a single idea... of course the engineers are coming to Google voluntary, it's not like it enslaves them...
- Roboprog 16y agoGreat book, by the way. "Emergents" -- as opposed to the "Qeng Ho" (sp?), who in contrast seemed more like a bunch of franchise owners* cooperating when they had common goals and/or to make some good trades? (and help a dispersed human civilization along here and there) * "franchise owner" in the sense of owning and operating a store associated with a broader brand.