
Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock
Long Now
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What Is a Clock?
i had been thinking about, im about kind of reading the newspaper every day. And so it just got me thinking, like, what if you actually structured your life around that? Soah, that produced the idea of monastic orders that would kind of take a vow to thatefet and they would live in a set of rings with walls ad and gates that would open under clock powerEvery year or every ten years, or every hundred or thousand years. That was the a, that was what i sketched out, and i think it's probably still up on the long now sight somewhere. Et's see, rit from alec, we have a could vr, a r
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