Burn-In Quotes

“You must have never driven in Boston.”
― August Cole, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

“Sagan was perhaps the most eloquent harbinger because his concern came from a place of deep understanding: ‘I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
― P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

“Pure digital simulation couldn’t prepare you best for the real world, something that applied also to this machine.”
― P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

“AI’s impact on the American worker will be decided not by AI, but by us . . . by the policies that we vote on and the organizations we choose to build . . .or not.”
― P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

“But like so much else, the constant flow of news, rumors, arguments, jokes, and memes had become a kind of addiction.31”
― P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

“Jared always left dinner to the default meal of the day, delivered by drone to the rooftop and paid for through his work account.29”
― P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

“turned out that not even a Yale Law degree could compete with the algorithms.”
― P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

“Never go into battle with a bot you can’t trust and never trust a bot you don’t know how to snuff out.”
― P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution