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fru-n-quiz9 июля 2025 г.vaguely amused by the anachronism of the process. The phone nearest him rang.Читать далее
Automatically, he picked it up.
"Yeah?"
Faint harmonics, tiny inaudible voices rattling across some orbital link, and then a sound like wind.
"Hello, Case."
A fifty-lirasi coin fell from his hand, bounced, and rolled out of sight across Hilton carpeting.
"Wintermute, Case. It's time we talk."
It was a chip voice.
"Don't you want to talk, Case?"
He hung up.
On his way back to the lobby, his cigarettes forgotten, he had to walk the length of the ranked phones. Each rang in turn, but only once, as he passed.15- fru-n-quiz9 июля 2025 г.Can't get off sexually unless he knows he's betraying the object of desire. That's what the file says. And they have to love him first. Maybe he loves them, too.13
- fru-n-quiz9 июля 2025 г.I want you to go and talk to Wintermute."
"I couldn't get near it," he said. "You're dreaming."
"Try."
"Can't be done."13 - fru-n-quiz9 июля 2025 г."So why's he got that stash in London? Nostalgia?"
"Maybe he doesn't know about it," she said. "Maybe it's just in his name, right?"
"I don't get it," Case said.
"Just thinking out loud... How smart's an AI, Case?"
"Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs. Pets. Cost a fortune anyway. The real smart ones are as smart as the Turing heat is willing to let 'em get."13 - fru-n-quiz9 июля 2025 г."Run into you again and I'll kill you," she said to the white face behind the tinted window.14
- fru-n-quiz9 июля 2025 г.Once they entered the bazaar, the Finn brightened noticeably, as though he were comforted by the crowd density and the sense of enclosure.13