Machinehood QUOTES

1 " Privacy had gone the way of the dodo during Welga’s childhood. Some part of her always remembered the cameras. In Marrakech, the caliph’s network blackout had unsettled her more than the potential for violence – the lack of communication, the inability to see what others were doing. It would take a million lifetimes to watch every minute of every public feed, but she had a sense of security knowing she could look out for her people, and they’d do the same. Losing that had felt like walking around with one shoe: doable but not at all comfortable. "

― S.B. Divya , Machinehood

3 " Technology was as habit-forming as every escapist, feel-good drug "

― S.B. Divya , Machinehood

5 " Her people attacked me, and I defended myself. We believe that she is responsible for crimes against human- and machine kind. We believe that the governments of Earth have failed to protect their people from criminals like her.”
“Are you human or AI?”
“I am both.”
The second agent spoke. “In what ways are you human?”
“I have a mother and a father, I was born into the world, like you. I have a soul.”
“and what makes you AI?”
“My body contains a collection of machine intelligences. We coexist. "

― S.B. Divya , Machinehood

7 " If she’d been in gravity, she might have fallen over with surprise "

― S.B. Divya , Machinehood

9 " The western way of thinking embraces duality. Good and evil. Man and woman. Mind and body. Human and machine. We reject these false dichotomies. Science has shown that our universe works across a range of possibilities. It embraces the infinite. "

― S.B. Divya , Machinehood

11 " some magic of biogenetic manipulation—not permanent, of course, lest humanity pollute the intentions of its Creator—everyone would become super capable. Or enter the leisure class. Or ascend to some digital faux godhood. "

― S.B. Divya , Machinehood