“Alas! It is too true that the Devil yet wanders restless and watchful through the earth, offering, as of yore, to unwary mortals, his deceitful Elixirs!” —E.T.A. Hoffmann I. The first law of technology is this: whatever you imagine you want —action at a distance, time-travel, general AI, photographs of the pre-Cambrian, the universal solvent—, as long as you can think it, eventually you’re going to get it. The second law is you’re going to regret it.
" The Tales of Smith - Ruiu."