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<cite>Amelia Urry, The first negative emissions carbon capture plant is up and running</cite></blockquote> | <cite>Amelia Urry, The first negative emissions carbon capture plant is up and running</cite></blockquote> |
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<blockquote>We have nothing in common with the Geometers. No shared experiences, no common culture. Until that changes, we can't communicate with them. Why not? Because language is nothing more than a stream of symbols that are perfectly meaningless until we associate them, in our minds, with meaning; a process of acculturation. Until we share experiences with the Geometers, and thereby begin to develop a shared culture - in effect, to merge our culture with theirs - we cannot communicate with them, and their efforts to communicate with us will continue to be just as incomprehensible as the gestures they've made so far: throwing the Warden of Heaven out the airlock, dropping a fresh murder victim into a cult site and rodding a volcano. | |
<cite>Neal Stephenson, Anathem</cite></blockquote> | |
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