The theme of ‘Ergognomics’ is not unknown in science fiction. The entire concept of diffusion of innovation is really very fascinating; there’s a fairly close alternate timeline where I’m an academic who specialized in it. …And wouldn’t that world be weird.
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Excuse me, Professor Lane?
Are you arguing that the word “Ergognomics” has adopted properties of itself for memory, enabling propagation beyond boilerplate mind-smoothing? This seems to be quite a paradox, as this suggests a viral memetic spread while also disproving it’s own existence by circular self-definition.
What were we talking about?
Obviously we were talking about the inevitability of gnomes. Ergo, gnomes.