You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: monsters
History is what we write, not what we remember. Why should we tarnish the memory of our planet by enshrining our less then noble deeds?
Alastair ReynoldsTag: history
How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’
‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.
So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We’re forging out into deep space – who knows what we’ll meet out there? If we can’t even accept a robot and some talking elephants, what good are we going to be when we meet something really strange?
Alastair ReynoldsTag: strange
Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: risk
Masai and elephants. The rest is dust.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: dust
Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: cost
Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: fulcrum
Can we drop the ‘artificial intelligence’? It’s a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.
Alastair ReynoldsTag: system
That’s what love is – sacrifice. Sacrificing everything ...
Alastair ReynoldsTag: love
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