Skills of Xanadu
From P2P Foundation
"The Skills of Xanadu" by Theodore Sturgeon.
Online at http://heybryan.org/books/Manufacturing/The%20Skills%20of%20Xanadu.pdf
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Paul D. Fernhout:
"If you haven't read it, anyone interested in P2P would enjoy reading the 1950s sci-fi short story "The Skills of Xanadu" by Theodore Sturgeon. In:
http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Stories-Theodore-Sturgeon/dp/0375703756
It inspired Ted Nelson's Xanadu hypertext system. Essentially, everyone on a planet wears a nanotech networked somewhat-self-replicating computer giving them access to all human knowledge through a sort of peer-to-peer telepathy, and another hierarchically oriented society shows up to conquer them."
More Information
- To Marry Medusa. Theodore Sturgeon.
