(thing) by dmd Wed Mar 07 2001 at 2:01:42
In Dan Simmons'   Hyperion, the portion of the datasphere which "governed Hegemony politics, fed information to tens of billions of data-hungry citizens ... More than a hundred and fifty planetary dataspheres mingled their resources within the framework."

An allusion to the Althing, the national (governing) assembly of Iceland at Thingvellir.

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