Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches. Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys..Neil Gaiman
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Richard K. Morgan’s novel Altered Carbon is set in a future where people can travel throughout time to different bodies. The main character, Takeshi Kovacs, is one of many humans who have their consciousness placed into an android body at the end of their lives. Morgan wrote this section as a parable about the moral issues surrounding that process. He focuses on the concept that people are entitled to retain some property that is theirs after death, and that the life-extension technology used by the corporations to replace them with their consciousnesses after death is morally reprehensible. This is what he thinks of his own life extension, and so he attempts to place himself in the shoes of the person who has paid to have him replaced with an android, what it would be like for him if he were replaced with an android, and how it would feel if he were replaced to find out that all of his memories had been deleted.
Source: Good Omens: The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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