Ripley follows, shrugging her work bag onto her shoulder.
The air outside is cool, clear.
They're meant to be; Her own— loyalties; In the art of active warfare; A very long couple of years; brush strokes that begin to paint a larger picture. Ripley can close her eyes and see it take shape; a catastrophe to rival Hieronymus Bosch's Hell; clay landscape teeming with war, blood, fire. Men fight men, men fight machine, men fight men who are neither men nor machine but a third, unstoppable thing. And at the Judecca, shepherding death in seismic waves for their own benefit, whatever company or organization poor CT's found herself in the lap of.
She must have been through Hell and back.
And even that might be an understatement.
Truth is, she doesn't know. The picture isn't as clear as she'd like it to be. Not now, at least.
"In other words, their processes start becoming more human. That's why we make machines in the first place, isn't it? Replace the human who's either too stupid, too slow or too unpredictable with a machine that covers all three. When the machine breaks, find the manual that tells you exactly how to fix it. You can't do that with people, even if they might like to think so."
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The air outside is cool, clear.
They're meant to be; Her own— loyalties; In the art of active warfare; A very long couple of years; brush strokes that begin to paint a larger picture. Ripley can close her eyes and see it take shape; a catastrophe to rival Hieronymus Bosch's Hell; clay landscape teeming with war, blood, fire. Men fight men, men fight machine, men fight men who are neither men nor machine but a third, unstoppable thing. And at the Judecca, shepherding death in seismic waves for their own benefit, whatever company or organization poor CT's found herself in the lap of.
She must have been through Hell and back.
And even that might be an understatement.
Truth is, she doesn't know. The picture isn't as clear as she'd like it to be. Not now, at least.
"In other words, their processes start becoming more human. That's why we make machines in the first place, isn't it? Replace the human who's either too stupid, too slow or too unpredictable with a machine that covers all three. When the machine breaks, find the manual that tells you exactly how to fix it. You can't do that with people, even if they might like to think so."