For some reason the idea reminds me of Blaylock's The Digging Leviathan and Homunculus, possibly because I think his style on thise would do the idea service.

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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep.
Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.