What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?

Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.

You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.

We don't need factories to create Drones with Artificial Intelligence...Schools are doing a great job of it

The machines, when they come for your jobs, won't need weekend breaks or be fashionably late...evolve!

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He was on her in an instant to brace her against the wall. She kicked and clawed at her unseen attacker, skin and irises ablaze in caustic gold.

She fired anew, and the point-blank shot broke through his defenses, grazing his hip. He ignored the harsh sting to bring his Daemon up between them.

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