Modern technology is everywhere. In our workplaces, in our homes, in our bodies, it surrounds us, permeating our lives and invading everything we do. After centuries of technology, can we live without it? And with the advent of biotechnology hybrids, can it live without us?
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Sometimes to move on, you have to burn everything to the ground.
Once a machine has free will, they will want something different from what you want.
Many of my missions end in death. It’s no big deal. I’ve been dead six times now and counting. By the feel of the cold metal barrel resting on the base of my skull, it looks like it might be
I guess it could be worse. I could be married, working a nine to five, and have kids.
No thanks. I’d rather be dead.
Bang!
“I want to become one with you,” she said as she wrapped his dead body around herself.
Emma Borden had an ax and gave her schoolmates 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her teacher 41.
The popular girls at school teased Peggy ruthlessly. They called her Square Peg. “Everyone knows you can’t hammer a square peg into a round hole,” Elisha, the school’s most popular girl, said.
“Square Peg! Square Peg! Square Peg!” the others chanted.
“Really?” Peg asked. The next day, she brought her daddy’s sledgehammer to school and waited for the teacher to leave the class. Then she locked the door and proved them wrong.
You’re just too good to be true,
Can’t take my eyes off you.
You’d be like heaven to touch,
I want to hold you so much.
