"I began to wonder why. Two possibilities sprang immediately to mind. One was the people who wrote the code coders long depicted in pop culture as a clan of vaguely comic, Tolkien-worshipping misfits."
"were one or both using code to recast the human environment as something more amenable to them? There was also a third possibility, one I barely dared contemplate because the prospect of it was so appalling."
"I learned that there were thousands of programming languages used to communicate with the machines, including a few dozen big ones whose names tended to suggest either roses or unconscionably strong cleaning products."
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