Аннотация
Vernor Vinge The Cookie Monster
Man is "the time-binding animal."
But in the future, that simple statement may take on meanings that Korzybski never imagined... . "So how do you like the new job?"
Dixie Mae looked up from her keyboard and spotted a pimply face peering at her from over the cubicle partition.
"It beats flipping burgers, Victor," she said.
Victor bounced up so his whole face was visible. "Yeah? It’s going to get old awfully fast."
Actually, Dixie Mae felt the same way. But doing customer support at Lotsa-Tech was a real job, a foot in the door at the biggest high-tech company in the world. "Gimme a break, Victor! This is our first day." Well, it was the first day not counting the six days of product familiarization classes. "If you can’t take this, you’ve got the attention span of a cricket."
"That’s a mark of intelligence, Dixie Mae. I’m smart enough to know what’s not worth the attention of a first-rate creative mind."
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