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    copied!<blockquote> <p>When Hiro first saw this place, ten years ago, the monorail hadn’t been written yet; he and his buddies had to write car and motorcycle software in order to get around. They would take their software out and race it on the black desert of the electronic night.</p> </blockquote> <p>— Neal Stephenson, <em>Snow Crash</em></p> <blockquote> <p>You could almost taste the pixels being spit out like greasy gravel when the wheels spun on digital asphalt</p> </blockquote> <p>— <a href="https://medium.com/backchannel/inside-deep-dreams-how-google-made-its-computers-go-crazy-83b9d24e66df" rel="nofollow noreferrer">“Inside Deep Dreams”</a></p> <blockquote> <p>entire TLDs went into freefall</p> </blockquote> <p>— Mike Hearn, <a href="https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">“Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto”</a></p> <blockquote> <p>[B]its and pieces of the world started disappearing. The environment began to disintegrate. The texture on the trees flickered. And all the people froze and blinked out of existence.</p> <p>And then, the world ended.</p> </blockquote> <p>— 99% Invisible, <a href="http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/game-over/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">“Game Over”</a></p> <blockquote> <p>i would watch a film festival that's exclusively videos people quietly wandering around MMORPGs in the final moments before their servers are shut down</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/michael_deforge/status/960876820395642881" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/michael_deforge/status/960876820395642881</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Thus shall you think of this fleeting world:<br> A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,<br> A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,<br> A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.</p> </blockquote> <p>— The Diamond Sutra</p> <blockquote> <p>even the cloud is built on material architecture which can decay</p> </blockquote> <p>— Harry Josephine Giles, <a href="https://harrygiles.org/2016/04/06/some-strategies-of-bot-poetics/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">“Some Strategies of Bot Poetics”</a></p>
 

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