I think there's something to that, but you never see a situation in which a company has given away high-performance hardware. Or at least I can't think of one. Software, sure, free OSes and other packages are a dime a dozen, but it's still going to cost you a couple hundred bucks, minimum, to afford the equipment and…

I will cop to a weakness in thought: I legitimately don't believe that any of these grand ideas have much behind them, philosophically, other than "Let's do this shit, I'm sure everything will be fine," which is basically untrue - or, at the very least, intellectually careless.

I fail to see how "let's look into mining asteroids" has anything much to do with this Mars idea, but if that's what heats you up, more power to you.

These prospective tech utopia gestures always seem to have no regard for cost, is my major problem with them, most likely since people like Musk are in such rarefied financial air that they have no concept of potential financial consequences for the masses. If the default setting is to have some sort of implant to…

Exactly. This whole "the future of humanity is on Mars" thing is full of giant, gaping holes, and a couple dozen tech zillionaires lording over it all.

Pour me one, Mandrake, and help yourself.

"Just pass, Milton."

Give it here. I've had a long day.

Shit, I forgot all about that. That does kind of pop a hole in his theory, doesn't it?

See, that's what a normal person would do with $8 billion or whatever he's worth.

You making fun of Charlie Two-Times?

I think he's one of those guys who would never allow something as poisonous as alcohol to infiltrate his perfectly-hacked body. Like those fucking Soylent maniacs.

If only. I might like him then.

Of course it doesn't occur to Elon Musk that he doesn't have to help design these ultra-intelligent AI systems.

"Delicious."

"And you're not allowed to not care one way or another, because Internet."

"DiMaggio? That guy was a f*g."

Seriously. Reince Priebus is the voice of reason in this scenario.

"We're going to break an unbreakable server and defeat ISIS."

"Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?"