Wirehead's comlog

Wirehead's comlog from the Datasphere

“BB Surbringer was my AI expert. BB worked in Hegemony Flow Control Records and Statistics and spent most of his life reclining on a free-fall couch with half a dozen microleads running from his skull while he communed with other bureaucrats in datumplane.
From Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.”


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December 3, 2007:

Permalink: “ BB Surbringer was my AI expert. BB worked in Hegemony Flow Control Records and Statistics and spent most of his life reclining on a free-fall couch with half a dozen microleads running from his skull while he communed with other bureaucrats in datumplane.
From Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.