Ventus
by Karl Schroeder
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Karl Schroeder
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Sept. 1, 2007
…Frankenstein’s monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking? —A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?
—from The Successor to Science, by Marjorie Cadille, March, 2076