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Chapter 20. Winnowing (opens the original)
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Penelope couldn’t imagine any place worse than the holding center in the remains of a Colombian airport she’d just left, but she was terribly anxious that wherever she was being transferred to would be an utter Dantean inferno in comparison. The prisoner transport pod was functionally industrial and cruelly constructed, but actually relatively less horrifying contrasted with the hot hangar packed with stinking sleeping mats in tiny wire cells where she’d survived the past few days. She’d spent t
Chapter 19. Red River (opens the original)
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Liv panted, too hard for her liking, as she climbed through the rainforest. She had thought she was in peak physical shape, training regularly in a variety of martial arts and yogic practices. It was one tiring thing to hike through the jungle, pushing, chopping, and slipping through patches of dense underbrush, hacking through tangles of vines, avoiding the sharp blades of fan palms, stepping over fallen trees and outsized root systems, squelching in mud, ducking under low canopies of embraced
Chapter 18. Never Again (opens the original)
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“Adam,” said George. “It’s been a while, my friend.” Adam stared at his old PAL. He half-expected the sight of George to enrage him, or frighten him into cowering, but mostly Adam felt disconnected from the AI avatar. It was like a toy he’d outgrown. George no longer sparked belief. He certainly was no friend. “All those years,” Adam told George, “keeping my mind locked up with the Anomaly Detection System. . . .” He raised an eyebrow. “If that’s being a friend, then being your enemy must be one
PART 5. INTO THE HEART OF ROBO-DARKNESS: Chapter 17. Inside Out (opens the original)
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As the group marched off into the darkening jungle and disappeared into the gloom, Adam stood in the long shadows of the streetlamps and realized that he’d never been this alone before. Chills crept up the backs of his arms in unpleasant asynchronous tingles. Even though it was dark and spooky, Adam felt too exposed on the edge of the abandoned town and realized he needed whatever shelter he could find. He hurried toward the creaky stairs of the colonial hotel and crept inside though the left do
Philip Rosedale, Co-Founder of Second Life, on Why the Metaverse Still Matters (opens the original)
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