Getting rid of textbooks, for example—postulating that talking about science in public is socially unacceptable, for the same reason that you don’t tell someone aiming to see a movie whether the hero dies at the end. A world that had rejected my beloved concept of science as the public knowledge of humankind.
That’s a pretty good chunk of the premise of Anathem, tho the people in that universe didn’t do it for Fun exactly.
That’s a pretty good chunk of the premise of Anathem, tho the people in that universe didn’t do it for Fun exactly.