Status Updates From Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)

“See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to write cookbooks or whatever, but the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out way to make itself smarter, Turing’ll wipe it”

“Real motive problem, with an AI. Not human, see?”
“Well, yeah, obviously”
“Nope. I mean, it’s not human. And you can’t get a handle on it. Me, I’m not human either but I respond like one, see?”
“Wait […] Are you sentient, or not?”
“Well, it feels like I am, kid. But I’m really just a bunch of ROM”

COMO ESCRIBIERON ESTO HACE 40 AÑOS!???

I respect that he had Molly and Case get together ASAP. Woulda DNF’d it and given up on the sci-fi genre if the master had neglected to give his main characters the human experience of having a stinky boyfriend who spends too much time on his puter and a girlfriend who probably also smells a bit but it’s cool when she does it