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When I first ran across
E2
and got a feel for what it was, it instantly reminded me of the
SciFi
novel
Beggars In Spain
by
Nancy Kress
. In the second half of the book, the first generation of
genetically engineered
"Sleepless" takes the next step and creates offspring with highly increased
intelligence
, called "Superbrights". In developing these new characters, Kress describes their
thoughts
as "strings": Every word and concept has strings linking it to other concepts. The connections can be obvious or seemingly arbitrary. Does this sound familiar yet? These grow considerably more elaborate as the Superbrights grow older, and one of them develops an
application
that will display an entire thought-string-structure in three dimensions, and then a program that will
translate
the strings of one Superbright to another's for ease of
communication
(seems everyone's strings are a little different). I suspect most of us can easily relate to the idea of one thought leading to another, and the
conceptual
"hyperlinks" our
brains
form over time, but for the Superbrights these visualized,
three-dimensional
strings are absolutely fundamental to
the thought process
itself.
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