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"...the people dealing with these new technologies will still be derived from the human stock we're familiar with today."
- Charles Stross
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| Aggressive-Response Service | ||
| An answering service with an attitude. |
Tired of those obsequiously polite answering machines?
| "Yeah, whaddaya want?" "Is this the computerized answering service of Oberon National?" "You got a problem with that?" "I got a problem with the tone of your voice." "F--- you. You dialed the aggressive-response number… I'll connect you with obsequious response, if that's all you can handle…" …When programmers have nothing better to do, they dick around with stuff like that… |
| Technovelgy from The Golden Globe,
by John Varley. Published by Ace Books in 1998 Additional resources -
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Varley fans may also recall the Big Computer (BC) from his 1983 novel Millenium, which had the same characteristics.
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