The Night Mayor
“Sometimes, it wondered whether dinosaurs wouldn’t have made a better job of civilisation.
It had become aware of the blossoming void long before the situation at Princetown was officially acknowledged. No one had yet bothered to feed it standard crisis input notice.
Yggdrasil had so much to deal with. There were anti-AI riots in Milton Keynes and Warrington Runcorn. Marshals had gone over to the rioters, and Yggdrasil had had to override their control of the andrews being used to put down the insurrections. The Gunmint Committee were in the midst of yet another drastic reprogramming, to alter the surface of the Yggdrasil interface without really changing anything. That had to be followed. And there were wars, hospitals, a transport system, taxes, academic programmes, power cuts, lotteries and social-security benefits to be attended to. And works of art to create, and games to play, and centuries to remember, and crimes to commit.
Yggdrasil perceived itself as a thinking universe. A ve...ry small proportion of its whole was active.MoreLess
It had become aware of the blossoming void long before the situation at Princetown was officially acknowledged. No one had yet bothered to feed it standard crisis input notice.
Yggdrasil had so much to deal with. There were anti-AI riots in Milton Keynes and Warrington Runcorn. Marshals had gone over to the rioters, and Yggdrasil had had to override their control of the andrews being used to put down the insurrections. The Gunmint Committee were in the midst of yet another drastic reprogramming, to alter the surface of the Yggdrasil interface without really changing anything. That had to be followed. And there were wars, hospitals, a transport system, taxes, academic programmes, power cuts, lotteries and social-security benefits to be attended to. And works of art to create, and games to play, and centuries to remember, and crimes to commit.
Yggdrasil perceived itself as a thinking universe. A ve...ry small proportion of its whole was active.MoreLess
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