Discussion Questions
1. Whose point of view is represented in
the first two sentences? Whose in the next few sentences? Where does it
switch to Angel's?
2. What does the story present as the next
development in computers? What is implied by the term bioware?
3. What evidence suggests that the characters
have begun to view themselves as analogs of (or even adjuncts to) their
computers?
4. In the computers of the story's future,
information is not stored on disks but in capsules. What connection does
that suggest between computers and drugs? Where else does the story link
them?
5. Does the story ever explain what the
Machine Sex program actually does? Does it need to? |
