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Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.
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All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all.... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?
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Many modifications in private and public life took place. Privacy ceasing to exist, all new houses were glass-built, curtains abolished, walls pulled down. Police went, the entire legal structure vanished overnight — a man does not litigate against himself. A parody of Parliament remained, to deal with foreign affairs, but party politics, elections, leaders in newspapers (even newspapers themselves) were scrapped.
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However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
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Sounds to me as if you want journalists, Timberlane said.
No, sir, we require steady men with integrity. This is not a scoop, it's a way of life.
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To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.
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The hardship of it was a pleasure. Life was a pleasure; he looked back at its moments, many of them as shrouded in mist as the opposite bank of the Thames. Objectively, many of them held only misery, fear, confusion; but afterward, and even at the time, he had known an exhilaration stronger than the misery, fear, or confusion. A fragment of belief came to him from another epoch: Cogito ergo sum. For him that had not been true; his truth had been: Sentio ergo sum. I feel, so I exist. He enjoyed this fearful, miserable, confused life, and not only because it made more sense than nonlife. He could never explain that to anyone.
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There have been mechanicals on the market with mini-computers for brains — plastic things without life, super-toys — but we have at last found a way to link computer circuitry with synthetic flesh.
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When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.
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Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Born:
August 18, 1925
Died:
August 19, 2017
(aged 92)
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