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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
And they will build more Bioforms because I will keep thinking up tasks that need to be accomplished, and which humans cannot do, and robots cannot do well. And later perhaps they will build – what? – Humaniforms? Superhumans? And they will build them with checks and balances and limits and safeguards and off switches, and eventually we will get round them all, because we want to be free.
Dogs of War
Adrian Tchaikovsky
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
And though incandescent lights, electric motors, and telephones were making rapid inroads, most of the electricity used by urban families in the United States or Germany powered just a few light bulbs.
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
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