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@Lizette603_23 Seems like it to me. Never been. Have read #StandonZanzibar #SciFi #JohnBrunner where it was one of the worldbuilding bits that it would be. For 2010.
I'd also think DC is anomalous.
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#Synthesis is a useful activity. In thinking, taking a couple of apparently unrelated pieces of knowledge and by combining them enabling an unexpected new thing; activity; business; thought ...
As a full-time occupation of its own there are not many #synthetists.
In #SciFi it crops up in #StandOnZanzibar by #JohnBrunner and #RiteOfPassage by #AlexeiPanshin the latter pointed out the need for another discipline, #Ordinology which I suppose is a blend of #library science and computation.
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don’t forget the alt text).
Day 1/20
#20books #20books20days #bookstodon #StandOnZanzibar #JohnBrunner
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Logic: The principle governing human intellection.
Its nature may be deduced from examining the two following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: "I can't so you mustn't," and "I can but you mustn't."
-Chad C. Mulligan, famed sociologist
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Resale shop find. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. $1.
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#StandOnZanzibar
#JohnBrunner