Re: Replicator in Egan's Diaspora

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 05:50:04 MST


On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, G.P. wrote:

> This is very interesting, how do you reach this conclusion?

>From the passage cited. It is a joke by Egan, which I've only now catched.
It is easy to spot (see description of the Coca Cola logo) if you're
looking for it.

> At Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:38:55 +0100 (MET), Eugene Leitl wrote
> >
> >Um, it was coke can.
> >
> >On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, G.P. wrote:
> >
> >> I believe a Replicator is a nanohardware based version of the same
> >> thing that is called "outlook" later in the book, ...
>
>

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