“Daisy had learned not to pay much heed to techno-fads. To her fell the task of preserving as much as possible, so that when humanity finally did fall, it wouldn’t take everything else to the grave with it.”

—  David Brin , book Earth

Part VIII (p. 471)
Earth (1990)

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