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Charles Stross explores a very similar thesis in Accelerando (http://www.accelerando.org): the civilization needs such intensive bandwidth to continue functioning "normally" that the distance between galaxies is too large to support both the bandwidth required and intergalaxical expansion (it's been awhile since I read it, so correct me if the details are fuzzy).



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