Fifth Cycle
[Gibson sounds somewhere between satisfied and amused. After long observation to make sure Abraxas's disappearance wasn't just a clever ruse, he's finally moved back to his castle room, and he's in the process of decorating it to look like a little more like home.]
"And the Creator said, 'Hey, interpretation program, buddy, why don't you just make it so everyone unerstands everyone else?' And the program followed his directive, and then all programs spoke the same language." The part they don't tell you is that after he did his job, the interpretor program went off to found a snazzy nightclub where everyone was welcome, regardless of their origin.
Obviously this whole mess is because Zuse went back to the Grid.
I guess the real question is, [and there's a quick buzzing sound as a bunch of numbers appear on the page] 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100001 01101011 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110100 01110010 01111001 00111111 00001101 00001010
--Oh, hey, neat!
[He'll be banging around on the thirteenth floor, if anyone wants to bug him in person. Binary reads, "can I speak in another language if I try?"]
"And the Creator said, 'Hey, interpretation program, buddy, why don't you just make it so everyone unerstands everyone else?' And the program followed his directive, and then all programs spoke the same language." The part they don't tell you is that after he did his job, the interpretor program went off to found a snazzy nightclub where everyone was welcome, regardless of their origin.
Obviously this whole mess is because Zuse went back to the Grid.
I guess the real question is, [and there's a quick buzzing sound as a bunch of numbers appear on the page] 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100001 01101011 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110100 01110010 01111001 00111111 00001101 00001010
--Oh, hey, neat!
[He'll be banging around on the thirteenth floor, if anyone wants to bug him in person. Binary reads, "can I speak in another language if I try?"]