"Singularity Sky" [.]

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What's going on:

• (A cornucopia machine:) Below it, FREE HARDWARE FOUNDATION GNU COUTURIER 15.6; then DIOR HISTORICAL CATALOG.
• So, trapped in our little fishbowl of space we drift through the crystal garden of universes- and our own neighborly intelligences, beings like the Eschaton, do their best to prevent the less-clever inmates from smashing the glass from within.
• The Festival sounded like a real headache. On the one hand, an upload civilization, used to omnipotence within its own pocket universe, had decided for no obvious reason to go forth and play the galactic tourist.
  
• Trader civilizations follow the trail of the Festival... like birds in the wake of a plow turning over rich farm soil, they waited to pounce on juicy nuggets of intellectual property turned up by the passing farmer.
  

__ a limited local singularity, what in our business we call a consensus reality excursion; people went a little crazy, that's all.
__ Never underestimate the intrinsic, as opposed to ideological, conservatism of an idea like revolution once it's got some momentum behind it.
__ "Now, your sanity questionable: sapience not. Only sapient organism could exhibit superlative irrationality!"

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