The tendency to create powerful things with unintended consequences started not with the invention of the steam engine or AI but with the invention of religion.
“Captain, someone is stealing the Enterprise.”
― The Ashes of Tomorrow
― The Ashes of Tomorrow
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“At the docking ring, before the group separated, Picard went to Sisko and the two men shook hands solemnly. “I’m sorry that this is what has brought us together after so many years,” he began. “What there is between you and I… I would have liked the opportunity to know you better.”
― The Ashes of Tomorrow
― The Ashes of Tomorrow
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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