Michael B. Morgan > Quotes

“Ordinary things became religion, and when nothing came, cultists invented something to worship: Giant airplanes, runways, and the like. That’s it, mega-mall cult was like cargo cult; the cult of the shopping rush, born out of the need to worship something.”
― Michael B. Morgan, Lost in the Shell: Flash and shorts around SciFi: Short stories - Science fiction - Illustrated - English version

“It was early black. The Sun didn’t seem to be the sun, but an eyeball, evil and merciless.”
― Michael B. Morgan, Lost in the Shell: Flash and shorts around SciFi: Short stories - Science fiction - Illustrated - English version

“Our lives are fragments. Consciousness can expand. Of course, there is always a price to pay."
"What price?"
"That’s up to each of us, Jax."
"This is all outside the rules."
"You must learn to think the impossible within the canon of the possible, then you will discover the limits within which you can move and dream. We are not God."
"And what are we?"
"We are beyond God.”
― Michael B. Morgan, Lost in the Shell: Flash and shorts around SciFi: Short stories - Science fiction - Illustrated - English version

“Generative AIs can produce reliable, near-perfect virtual scenarios, and AIs that expand consciousness can induce perceptions, but they still cannot completely erase the residual imprint of reality.”
― Michael B. Morgan, Lost in the Shell: Flash and shorts around SciFi: Short stories - Science fiction - Illustrated - English version

“Poi Net si concentra sulle gocce che schizzano luminose nelle pozzanghere che le inghiottono una ad una. Tutt'intorno, marciscono i resti di pseudo-vite fatte di alcolici a buon mercato, sigarette e rifiuti di droga. E c'è una puzza di confine, di frontiera, che esala da ogni angolo.”
― Michael B. Morgan, Root Legacy: AI confini della coscienza - con Illustazioni (SciFi and Cyberpunk stories)

“Raccogli le tue ossa, le poche certezze che hai, la tua residua fiducia nella vita e diamoci una mossa. Morire può essere un fatto spiacevole, ma se proprio dobbiamo farla questa cosa, lasciandoci le palle, allora facciamola come si deve.”
― Michael B. Morgan, Root Legacy: AI confini della coscienza - con Illustazioni (SciFi and Cyberpunk stories)