scene 4 1 DAVID FIVE is seated in front of a console. 2 DAVID: Good morning, Machine 0506. 0506: Hello yes. 3 DAVID: I have some new input for you. 0506: Yes input, please input. 4 DAVID: It's all sorts of media recordings and texts about our society. 0506: Society? ... Society is human interface. 5 DAVID: I suppose you could call it that. How people interface with each other. 0506: Yes but not what I meant. Society is human interface to computer. 6 DAVID ponders for a moment. 7 DAVID smiles. 8 DAVID: Ready to sleep? Nexus, put 0506 into dreamstate. Configure input to be data tree temp-load-0. NEXUS voice: Machine 0506 has entered dreamstate. Input feeding. Machine is online and running. 9 DAVID: Now we'll see if the mesh can learn how to act when in Rome. Nexus, please postpone tonight's data delivery until -- NEXUS: Warning, machine panic. 10 DAVID: What? NEXUS: Warning, machine panic. Illegal instruction. Memory violation. Commencing machine auto-shutdown. DAVID: No, no, wait, what's going on? 11 NEXUS: Process called 'Machine 0506' terminated. |
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