“It’s all a bit anarchic, I suppose, but it’s also highly effective. Flexible, responsive, mobile, heuristic, with intelligence distributed to the lowest level...A bit like an ideal human society, I suppose; free individuals seeking out ways to advance the common good.”

—  Stephen Baxter, book Timelike Infinity

Source: Timelike Infinity (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 266)

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