I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the
machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake,
and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my
dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my
consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien. Evolution is at work here,
but just what is evolving remains to be seen.
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"Man and Machine"
machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake,
and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my
dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my
consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien. Evolution is at work here,
but just what is evolving remains to be seen.
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"Man and Machine"
Related:
- I hold a scrap of paper in the darkness and
light it.
I watch it burn bright and curl, disappearing into... - Homer stands behind an X-ray machine]
Hibbert: Now what you see here is the radioactive dye flowing through
your husband's circulatory system.
Nurse: But Doctor, I haven't injected the dye yet!... - Bob here. I'm home right now, I'm just screening my calls.
So start talking and if you're someone I want to speak... - Hello, just in case you were wondering the checks in the mail.
If you weren't, then tell my wonderful answering machine... - I can't come to the phone now because alien beings are eating my
brain.
Leave a message anyway, and after the alien beings... - If I could read your mind, love,
What a tale your thoughts could tell,
Just like a paperback novel, The kind the drugstore... - I want my data back, machine,
and I want it now... - When the chairman introduced the guest speaker as a former illegal
alien,
I got up from my chair and yelled, "What's the matter... - I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me?
So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love...
