>Accompanied by military escort vehicles and helicopters, an ambulance departed with the Fourth Wallfacer. Against the lights of New York City, Wade’s figure ap

>Accompanied by military escort vehicles and helicopters, an ambulance departed with the Fourth Wallfacer. Against the lights of New York City, Wade’s figure appeared as a black ghost, his eyes glinting with a cold light. >“We’ll send only a brain,” he said. Still too heavy by a factor of 1000 or so. Perhaps we'd be better off building this laser array in space, using self-replicating robots to assemble cables around a moon of Jupiter to siphon power from its orbit in the magnetic field. >Electricity surges through the cable loops as they slice through Jupiter's magnetosphere, slowly converting the rock's momentum into power. Small robots grovel in the orange dirt, scooping up raw material to feed to the fractionating oven. Amber's garden of machinery flourishes slowly, unpacking itself according to a schema designed by preteens at an industrial school in Poland, with barely any need for human guidance. From one of the Dark Forest books and Accelerando respectively.