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"Meat was easy to bamboozle. It had to expend so much energy and attention just dragging itself around that it tended to miss a lot."

"...fifteen years later they were still squeezing videos out of [John Lennon], like they forgot somebody wiped him out, and it had gone from, like, because they loved him to it not mattering what had happened because they could still get the fucking videos. They cooked up a simulation.. of the man and got it to do interviews and give simulated answers to simulated questions before the estate pulled the plug on that."

' “Truth is cheap, but information costs.” I can’t remember who said that.’

‘Vince What’s-His-Name,’ said Sam. ‘Died in a terrorist raid or something. I thought you said all information should be free.’

‘It should. It isn’t. Knowledge is power. But power corrupts. Which means the Age of Fast Information is an extremely corrupt age in which to live.’