I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
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Stephen Hawking
No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
I was born on the cusp of technology.
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Anthony T.Hincks
When artificial intelligence comes of age, the first thing it's going to do is get rid of the inefficient parts. And guess who that will be! And what will happen to us? Well, to find out the answer to that question all you have to...
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Anthony T. Hincks
.. there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn’t seen the last time she was a visitor to his strange chamber, it appeared to be a mass of hard drives all fused together, but they looked too sophisticated to be...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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