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Advertisements Frater Atzo on Speeding The rate of speed at which I travel on the highway is a matter of personal attentiveness and practice. I don’t ask or expect anybody else to do it, or to buy into it. But essentially, I stick to the posted speed limit like glue. If on a major highway,…

Advertisements It’s a bit of a downer, philosophically. Now, mind you, my mood isn’t really down. For reasons probably easily guessed, I woke up this morning in a state of ebullience that has pretty much lasted all day. And the work week has been wondrously productive. My boss and coworkers couldn’t be happier. But then…

Advertisements Award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds wrote at least two novels about a distant possible future, “Revelation Space” and “Chasm City,” in which he describes, among the elements of his novels’ universe, a disease called the Melding Plague. A strange mixture of biology, cybernetics, chemistry and software, it is a viral disease that infects…