Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismThe Empire Hacks BackThe Artificial Intelligence that ran Unicorp by way of a complex array of Dean surrogates (a genderless holographic amalgam that mixed maternal with avuncular qualities), had contacted him directly, an unprecedented occurrence in his career. [1] The voice was distracted, vaguely digital: "You are to track the Zappatistas. Entrap them. Determine whether they have the Byron. Offer them a program of their own if you have to. We must put an end to this wanton erasure of History. Your weapon is a solution of last resort, but do not hesitate to use it. Thanks for your professional attention to this matter. My office door is always open." The voice flicked off. He was on his own, then? A vigilante? He felt a warm glow. Notes1. Personal contact between administration and staff is indeed highly unusual. As early as the 1990s high ranking employees of what were then called State Universities undertook to link all academic data bases and the mainframes that sustained them. Little did they know what would emerge from this grand design. See The Coming of the Digital Archipelago by Emile Hassenfuss (Moskow: Svoboda, 2077). Navigation |