“Ridiculous to trust your life to these senseless AI things, he thought as he uploaded it to the net; but nowadays it was the only way you could find out anything, search through the massive information overload on the net and everywhere else.”

—  Jamil Nasir

Source: Tower of Dreams (1999), Chapter 5 (p. 59)

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