Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no job was perfect. - Daniel Suarez

The seat of consciousness — what’s known as ‘sensorium’ — exists partly as an expression of particle entanglement in higher physical dimensions. The human brain is merely a conduit.

She recalled scoffing at Morris’s three golden rules of computer security: do not own a computer;
do not power it on;
and do not use one The subtlety of it had escaped her at the time. It wasn’t meant as a surrender. It was a meditation on risk versus benefit. Did these systems give us more than they took from us? It was an admission that we will never be fully secure. We must instead strive for survivability.

And yet on Earth, we spend a trillion dollars on war without blinking an eye. With each passing year, the chance of a global catastrophe mounts — the climate, an epidemic, a financial crash, or a war that shrouds Earth in space debris and prevents us from reaching space. Possibly ever again. Humanity’s future depends on going — now, not later.