“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”
(Sorry, I just had to post this quote because it was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title, and I've been re-reading Banks lately.)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9605621-an-outside-context-...
(Sorry, I just had to post this quote because it was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title, and I've been re-reading Banks lately.)