BBC Meet the Author - IAIN M BANKS
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Excession is my favourite Culture novel to date (although I haven't yet read Surface Detail).
1 year ago 4
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I think Use of Weapons is his best effort, and one of my favourite books of all time.
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Culture novels are great. I love them.Drones are my favorite.
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woah, your desk! You sit at desk and you are a man. i would have believed almost anything i think but this desk man shit now thats cool. Now Mr Banks, AND I NOW ITS A LONG SHOT BUT I HOPE YOU READ THIS, there are only a few things to me ON THIS WHOLE PLANET that i love more than your Culture stories and they are all alive. CHEERS MATE!!
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what is this from?
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I Loved Use of Weapons, Consider Phlebas and Matter - but Player of Games is my absolute favorite.
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which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests."
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invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbours were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control
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sure, here you go...
2.55 - "there's such a consensus that's seem to have developed, that the first thing that AI will do is " now you will die puny humans" but well, need it be that way?"
4.00 - "it's not my invention entirely, the neural lace thing I've got trademark on those two words put together like that, but that idea to be able to transcribe human personality onto some kid of substrate has been around for a long time, probably as long as computers themselves."
jackwgarland 9 months ago
can anyone tell me what he says in 2:55-3:02 and in 4:00-4:06
ath09 9 months ago
@ath09 sure, here you go...
2.55 - "there's such a consensus that's seem to have developed, that the first thing that AI will do is " now you will die puny humans" but well, need it be that way?"
4.00 - "it's not my invention entirely, the neural lace thing I've got trademark on those two words put together like that, but that idea to be able to transcribe human personality onto some kid of substrate has been around for a long time, probably as long as computers themselves."
jackwgarland 9 months ago