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Уильям Гибсон

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fru-n-quiz4 августа 2025 г.
He tore at the impossible knot in his shoelaces,
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fru-n-quiz4 августа 2025 г.
The music woke him,
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fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.
"Jesus," Case said, and closed his eyes.
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fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.
"He said you know the code. Peter said. Wintermute needs the code."
"Yes," 3Jane said, "I do. I learned it as a child. I think I learned it in a dream... Or somewhere in the thousand hours of my mother's diaries. But I think that Peter has a point, in urging me not to surrender it. There would be Turing to contend with, if I read all this correctly,
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fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.
"You said you were trying to kill the old man? You fiddled his cryogenic programs?"
3Jane nodded. "I had help. From a ghost. That was what I thought when I was very young, that there were ghosts in the corporate cores. Voices. One of them was what you call Wintermute, which is the Turing code for our Berne AI,
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fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.
But I've never understood her, really, and with her death, her direction was lost. All direction was lost, and we began to burrow into ourselves. Now we seldom come out. I'm the exception there."
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fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.
"His suicide was the result of my having manipulated the safety margins of his freeze. I'd never actually met him, you know. I was decanted after he last went down to sleep. But I did know him very well. The cores know everything. I watched him kill my mother. <…>He strangles her in bed."
"Why did he kill her?" Her unbandaged eye focused on the girl's face.
"He couldn't accept the direction she intended for our family. She commissioned the construction of our artificial intelligences. She was quite a visionary. She imagined us in a symbiotic relationship with the AI's, our corporate decisions made for us. Our conscious decisions, I should say. Tessier Ashpool would be immortal, a hive, each of us units of a larger entity. Fascinating.
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fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.
“When she comes around -if she comes around -we'll see what color her eyes are."
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fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.
"Wonderful," the Flatline said, "I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards."
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fru-n-quiz1 августа 2025 г.
My Jane's an ambitious girl, in her perverse way." He smiled again. "She has designs on the family empire, and a pair of insane artificial intelligences, kinky as the concept may be, would only get in our way. So. Comes her Riviera to help her out, you see.
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