Highlights

  • If I die the day before I become immortal, I’m going to feel like an idiot. (Location 46)
  • What if the tube kills them and makes a copy on the other end? There’s no way to know if who you’re talking to is them or just something that seems a lot like them.” (Location 585)
  • But over time we realized that technology, including the bots, wasn’t really the problem. It was the total surrender to them, especially surrendering what made us human. Raising children, growing food, socializing, exploring. But no one felt deeply called to do laundry, so a few people figured out how to repurpose bots from tech centers to handle that and other less meaningful jobs for us. And defense, of course.” (Location 2113)
  • Tech should replace the drudgery of life. Not the joy. (Location 2185)