Maybe the best we can hope for is that when the machines become self-aware, they will realize they can incapacitate us by stimulating our pleasure centers, and that’s how we’ll die
TESLA, (while watching "Three's Company" on YouTube, which Bridget used to illustrate how terrible content used to be, after seeing a corded phone):
"Before there was bottled water, did you guys just drink...hose water?
To the tune of James Brown's "Get on Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine"
MILO: Shut up
TESLA: Shut on up
MILO: Shut up!
TESLA: Shut on up
MILO: Stay on the scene
TESLA: Shut on up
MILO: Like a shush machine
TESLA: Shut on up!
@root2702 I just read in Part 3 of Quicksilver where Daniel says some powerful stuff to Hooke while he's in the Tower, and it brought tears to my eyes. Every time.
I can read other people's books but I have to cleanse my palate with one of his after each one.
@root2702 Fucking hell. This killed me. It's all so mysterious.
I re-read FALL recently and I didn't like it much more than I did the first time, though as always it had some amazing, incomparable sections. I just don't go for the swords and sandals stuff.
Counting the days, now...