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‘WatchdØg’
What happens when mankind is ready to leave the cradle and seek other worlds? Who can you leave behind?
…the earth shook and the sky split as the giant rockets lifted the soul and body of man to Pluto and the distant stars.
Only he stayed behind.
Basically he was six hundred square miles of squat building, with control over a world-wide network of smaller stations and probes.
A babysitter.
From WatchdØg, by Jack C. Haldeman.
Published by Ultimate Publishers in 1972.
Artwork was created with a mix of Ai tools.
Music by DenniswithY - GrünerGrasshalm
1/1 minted now on @makersplace.co
Available for Ξ1.333
‘Emissarial Projection’
“Do you know what an emissarial projection is…? It’s when they send a tuned suite of queries and responses to a remote location, by light beam. To play the part of an emissary.”
“…If we are to believe what we are told, the object they send is something like a library, transmitted by a signal laser. Suitably housed and emplaced within enabled equipment of sufficient capacity and complexity, this… entity, though it is simply a many-branched array of statements, questions and answers, with a set of rules governing the order in which they are expressed, is able to carry out what seems like an intelligent conversation. It is as close as one is allowed to to come to an artificial intelligence.
From The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks.
Published by Orbit in 2004
Artwork was created with a mix of Ai tools.
Music by AphexTwin - Lush Ambulance
1/1 minted now on @makersplace.co
Available for 1.5Ξ
https://makersplace.com/yuramiron/emissarial-projection-1-of-1-36453/
