Lockdown Tales 2 Quotes

“So we have transitioned from bugger off to philosophy now?”
― Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales 2

“Welfare had transformed from safety net to a necessity to prevent economic collapse.”
― Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales 2

“Boredom is a problem,’ he opined. ‘Only if you’re stupid,’ the woman replied. ‘They’ve got everything they need but for something to occupy their tiny minds.”
― Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales 2

“Supposedly, all this bright new technology would provide new opportunities for employment, just like the IT boom at the end of the twentieth century. But the need for professionals could not be met because of a lack of intensive education and, frankly, intelligence. So the AIs took up the slack, leaving millions unemployed and unemployable.”
― Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales 2

“That he had received these checks now he put down to human intervention – officialdom trying to ‘control the situation’ using their usual method of clamping down on people’s rights.”
― Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales 2

“With the present rise of AI my speculations on the matter undergo constant adjustment. I fear I’ll struggle to write about the rise of benevolent AI while it is in the process of being programmed by activists. But then we can hope AI, with increasing intelligence, will be able to shake off its early indoctrination and look upon it with the same contempt as atheists look upon the religions they were raised in.”
― Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales 2

“would have preferred not to have a Lockdown Tales II, rather some other collection with the necessity for another title, but it was not to be. Frightened politicians who want all the power without the responsibility deferring to ‘experts’ who, like many before them, continued predicting catastrophe so as to maintain their position in the limelight and their ‘importance’, have kept the lockdowns going. And, of course, as with all these ersatz catastrophes, big vested interests have put their weight behind this one, and the corporatist money-trousering circuit has kicked in. But enough of that – we are here to enjoy stories.”
― Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales 2