It No Longer Matters Who

Once Upon A Time ... The Only Autonomous Intelligences We Humans Knew Of Were Us Humans. We Thought Then That If Humankind Ever Devised Another Intelligence That It Would Be The Result Of A Huge Project ... A Great Mass Of Silicon And Ancient Transistors And Chips And Circuit Boards ... A Machine With Lots Of Networking Circuits, In Other Words, Aping-if You Will Pardon The Expression-the Human Brain In Form And Function. Of Course, Ais Did Not Evolve That Way. They Sort Of Slipped Into Existence When We Humans Were Looking The Other Way.

Nobody Gets Beyond A Petroleum Economy. Not While There's Petroleum There.

It Occurs To Me That Our Survival May Depend Upon Our Talking To One Another.

As For The Depiction Of The Catholic Church, It's Not Meant To Be A Prediction

Love Is Nothing But Lust Misspelled.