Cory Doctorow

uplifter n.	2006 C. Doctorow I, Row-Boat in Overclocked (2007) 185 ‘The reef told us who they were when they arrived.’ ‘Hold on, what? The reef?’…. So Robbie told him what he knew of the uplifted reef and the distant and cool voice of the uplifter. ‘It’s an uplifted coral reef? Christ, humanity sucks. That’s the dumbest fucking thing—’.