another novel we're not going to write

[lauradi7dw]

What if we had reached the state (as in the Matrix or one of William Gibson's novels) in which knowledge could be plugged into one's brain directly, but you couldn't specify - it would be like having an iPod shuffle instead. Say you wanted to review amino acid side chains and took your chances but ended up with a biography of John Philip Sousa instead. Arthur altered the idea to make it more stereotypically dystopian, I think - in his version, some sort of central authority would choose a daily topic, and everyone would wake up suddenly well-informed about dairy farming, for example.