The fictional setting used to contrast "primitive" surroundings with high-level theoretical physics.
The story follows a young researcher visiting a remote African country, the Republic of Gurundia, to investigate the work of a mysterious, eccentric scientist named (though in the Donda context, it focuses on Professor Donda ). stanislaw_lem_prawo_dondy_1974_sluchowisko_drug...
: Donda discovers that information has mass. He posits that once a society reaches a certain "saturation" of data—specifically, when the weight of all processed information exceeds a critical threshold—it triggers a "monstrous" physical transformation. the Republic of Gurundia