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  • 'The Technon is the foundation of Solar civilization; without it, we are lost.

    The Long Way Home Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1955

  • You might as well face it, the Technon is the best possible device for government - if we wrecked it, we'd go back to corruption, incompetence, and internecine strife.

    The Long Way Home Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1955

  • They confirm this when they find the Earth, with its advances, lost colonies, Centaurian opponents, Technon computer brain control, guilds and others.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: No World Of Their Own - Poul Anderson Blue Tyson 2008

  • They confirm this when they find the Earth, with its advances, lost colonies, Centaurian opponents, Technon computer brain control, guilds and others.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Long Way Home - Poul Anderson Blue Tyson 2008

  • They confirm this when they find the Earth, with its advances, lost colonies, Centaurian opponents, Technon computer brain control, guilds and others.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • They confirm this when they find the Earth, with its advances, lost colonies, Centaurian opponents, Technon computer brain control, guilds and others.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Blue Tyson 2008

  • Technon, upon this likeness, all being in accordance with what he had been told, asked him if he knew Erginus; and on his replying that he was his brother, taking it for granted that he was speaking with Diocles, not so much as asking his name or staying for any other token, he gave him his hand, and began to discourse with him and ask him questions about matters agreed upon with Erginus.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Erginus met them, and, apprehending the cheat and the danger, beckoned to Technon to make his escape, and immediately both of them, betaking themselves to their heels, ran away as fast as they could to Aratus, who for all this despaired not, but immediately sent away Erginus to Dionysius to bribe him to hold his tongue.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Aratus, hearing this, dispatches away Xenocles with two of his own servants, Seuthas and Technon, to view the wall, resolving, if possible, secretly and with one risk to hazard all on a single trial, rather than carry on a contest as a private man against a tyrant by long war and open force.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • But when this also went by without observing them, immediately Mnasitheus and Ecdelus got upon the wall, and, possessing themselves of the approaches inside and out, sent away Technon to Aratus, desiring him to make all the haste he could.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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