“Hivemind!”
“Grandpa...”
“Don't you see how the internet
affects your consciousness? No, of course you don't, not from the
inside. The internet is thoughts, pure thoughts, colliding and
merging, ultimately subsuming the self, creating an entity, a
human-machine hybrid overmind! And you're only a neuron!”
“I know you're kidding.”
“But did I have you going for a sec?
Ohh, let me sit down. It's fine, kiddo, it's all right. Just don't
waste your life. Try not to waste it. Maybe we're doomed to waste it.
So much time. Too much time.”
“Are you okay, Grandpa?”
“Eh, I think it's the new medication.
My mouth tastes like wood and I keep seeing anthropomorphized
animals. Man, I wish the singularity would hurry up and get here.”
