The coming thing, Cowboy thinks. Live forever in a bodily incarnation of
the eye-face, not limited to the speed of artificially enhanced
neurotransmitters but approaching the speed of light, extending the limits
of the interface, the universe. Brain contained in a perfect liquid-
crystal analog. Nerves like the strings of a steel guitar. Heart a
spinning turbopump. The Steel Cowboy, his body a screaming monochrome
flicker, dispensing justice and righting wrongs. Who was that masked AI?
Dunno, pardner, but he left this silver casting of a crystal circuit.
To Cowboy, it sounded pretty good.
-- Walter Jon Williams, _Hardwired_
the eye-face, not limited to the speed of artificially enhanced
neurotransmitters but approaching the speed of light, extending the limits
of the interface, the universe. Brain contained in a perfect liquid-
crystal analog. Nerves like the strings of a steel guitar. Heart a
spinning turbopump. The Steel Cowboy, his body a screaming monochrome
flicker, dispensing justice and righting wrongs. Who was that masked AI?
Dunno, pardner, but he left this silver casting of a crystal circuit.
To Cowboy, it sounded pretty good.
-- Walter Jon Williams, _Hardwired_
Related:
- The scene: in a vast, painted desert, a cowboy faces his horse.
Cowboy: "Well, you've been a pretty good hoss, I guess... - Save a horse ...
Ride a cowboy... - GAY cowboy --
buggeroo... - He has a mind like a steel trap.
Some day it'll snap shut and swallow his face... - Bi Montana cowboy -
one who likes cows as well as... - Pepe: Tell me more! I want to know <all> the constellations.
Homer: Well, there's... Jerry the Cowboy. And that... - I'm not really a cowboy.
I just found the hat..... - A silver tongue, a golden touch,
and a mind like a steel trap... - If speed kills,
then Windows users may live forever...
