The story of computing 'bugs' being an artifact of computing hardware, not software (from the relatively brief period when the two were inseparable), never fails to make me a little giddy.

A modern-day motorcyclist without a face shield and a nascent computer architect would respond similarly to "you've got bugs in your shit."

So much of that book is internal to the characters, though. You'd need some kind of infodump to explain Cayce's aversion to logos, for example.

You're mourning time gone. Nick Drake.

The human mind exists at the intersection of our bodies and our environment. Maybe we should build AI some bodies so it'll hopefully think like us and we can relate to it.

Like propagandizing runaway climate change until public action to curb it is too late? 🤔

You kill robots the same way you kill humans: shut them off and dismantle them.

I've always wanted a duffel bag that swears like a sailor.

Bad time. Let's say your sphere is 2 AU in diameter, enclosing the inner planets (roughly where the Belt is). Sounds good? No! Because now there's a whole surface that has the same albedo as Earth, pointed at Earth. Kiss your diurnal cycle goodbye and kiss radiative nighttime heat transfer goodbye.