Why even grow them with arms and legs if they are just going to be batteries? Wouldn't it be easier to just grow cows instead?

There were tons of these novelty guns from this era that were just meant as conversation pieces and gifts between rich people they were never meant to actually get used for anything.

That's always the issue with super heroes. All these people with these crazy abilities and powers and the only thing we can think to do with them is beating up petty criminals.

Like that's really what the world needs: tougher cops with no oversight.

Big time.

For sure. It's currently possible to push discourse with hundreds of accounts pushing a coordinated narrative but it's expensive and requires a lot of real people to be effective. With a suitably advanced AI one person could do it at the push of a button.

Hilarious to think that an AI is going to be trained by a bunch of primitive Reddit karma bots.

This is what capitalism does. A constant battle of finding the lowest quality to price ratio. Everything will naturally gravitate to the shitiest cheapest version of itself.

That's why people need to read a LOT of books. The only thing worse than someone who doesn't read at all is the person that reads like one book a year and let's it define their whole personality.

Nice to see short fiction making a bit of a comeback. Shame all this MAGA stuff didn't bring back the best thing about the 50s: short format and serial fiction periodicals.

Cognos Analytics at work and like a lot of folks there's a cheap IBM server card in my media center supporting an array for network storage.

That's not counting the dozens of IBM products that are at the various levels of all the networks we travel through online.

Getting rid of the previous versions just makes it harder for unity to enforce any terms on previously signed agreements.

A massive search engine registered database containing years of knowledge from millions of people. Its going to be hard to replicate that.