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Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by cema on Friday April 26, 2013 @01:38PM (#5614244)
I think Vernor Vinge has something like that in one of his end-of-civilization post-singularity novels, let's see... Marooned in Realtime, yes. (Great read, too.)
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Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by akkartik on Friday April 26, 2013 @01:52PM (#5614350)
Nit: Marooned in realtime is one of Vinge's pre-singularity novels. Both in the sense that he hadn't come up with the term yet, and in the sense that the technology in the book isn't all that god-like.

(Not a bad read at all, yes.)

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Re:NASA has three smartphones orbiting the earth as mini-sat... by vilhelm_s on Friday April 26, 2013 @02:42PM (#5614664)
Marooned in Realtime does use the word singularity.
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