David Dyck

“Blake was no villain; he was simply an overzealous boy with too many toys. In the year 2030, that toy just happened to be a fault-tolerant quantum computer deployed before the wide-spread adoption of post-quantum encryption standards.” –Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

“Blake quipped, ‘We will soon be nothing but transparent heaps of jelly to each other.’ Naively, I responded affirmatively, as if he’d shared a profound new insight, unaware he was facetiously quoting a technophobe writer from an 1877 New York Times article about the invention of the telephone.” –Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

“Someone once quipped, ‘If one plus one equals two, then one plus zero equals more, because computational ones and zeros have constructed modern civilization.’” –Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

“The prevailing notion was that our fate hinged on imbuing our virtuous human values into superintelligent AI—a wildly misguided obsession. We erroneously believed we could program a fixed code of ethics into AI as effortlessly as we had once inserted a floppy disk into an Apple II.” –Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

“Far from its emancipatory promise, Interface morphed into an imprisoning vice, cajoling humanity toward an upgraded, useful, and uniform future. Essentially, it became a photo editing tool for real-life—smile, or we’ll paste a smile on you.” – Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

“I guess they missed the memo on that one, given how they’re pounding on their classical computers, expecting consciousness to evolve from those rocks.” –Blake, from Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

“On the fateful day of April 25, 1961, when a patent was awarded for the integrated circuit, we entered the race to reengineer intelligence—initiating a countdown to create a non-biological construct that mimicked and then subsequently superseded the biological construct we called the human brain.” –Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

“As we hemmed and hawed over how compatible our values might be with superintelligent AI, we ought to have been haunted by a more historically poignant threat. Wisdom should have informed that we’d be better served by determining if our values might collide with the unhinged ethics of the man bestowed with the kind of power poetically referred to by the 13th Marquess of Groppoli.” –Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

“But hasn’t that perennially been the case—we insatiable consumers endlessly consuming? I can't imagine it’s all that different from what we observe using a shiny orange worm as bait for spawning bass. My goodness, the moment the sunlight dances off that spinning, buoyant lure—the damn thing’s hooked.” –Huxley’s Game by David Dyck

Jack, from my recent book, Huxley's Game, mirrors my thoughts as a science fiction author [retrospectively versus futuristically], embodying the imperative duty we all share to warn the world of impending threats and yet unimaginable futures.