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. a cave company, a magician company.
sharpest knife, cutest knife.
we will grow humans in pea-pods
^ shimmering sound-card emergence,
something there on the shore of
turtle beach. the primordial soup of
the digital, waves in dithering of
third-rate dac's, caressing the sand,
^ bringing things up from the depths of
. the circuit. and there, deposited: the
first seed crystal of artificial .
intelligence.
this changes everything, of course.
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. the company is named for it's first
product, the orbital mirror, both a .
passive sentinel and an active torch:
set to it's widest configuration it .
will light up a whole city at night,
and at its narrowest it becomes a laser
to cut through mountain and metal.
still unsold prototypes by the time ^
when that something was found on that .
beach, now the mirrors are all used to
beam energy at different mirr
implements, as a rather static and
boring power source. (and subtle threat
of violence.)
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the ai is a coral. they grow it .
(crystal oil, lead glass, gentle laser
curtains) only to carve it apart and
section it. to become conditioned,
refractured, grown again. deliciously
honed. mirr sinks further below the
surface.
^ whispers now, about featherbite... is
she a real person? or is this the mirr .
ai, being unleashed upon the youth? and
another conspiracy theory about there
not actually being any human employees
left.
^
in the meantime, dubious creations.
cerberus bodies are born. .
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