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   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:08:54 -0600, Doc O'Leary   
    wrote in   
      
   in rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.science,rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  Greg Goss  wrote:   
      
   >> I'm not sure how the magic keyword "fractals" applies   
   >> here.  The journey has a fractal nature, but nobody has   
   >> explained a technology that uses that fractal nature.   
      
   > One fractal concept is space filling curves.   
      
   A space-filling curve need not be fractal in nature.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > It could be argued that the whole split between sci-fi   
   > utopia vs. dystopia comes down to not technology changes,   
   > but whether or not the idiots in charge get booted out   
   > the door.   
      
   Not very persuasively.   
      
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