The Robot Uprising Is Near: Berkeley's Blum Center Building wants me to pay with Apple Pay in order for me to enter itself...
Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep: "How could this happen?...
...A million schedules were suddenly advanced. An orderly flowering was out of the question now, and so there was no more need for the humans left in the Lab. The change was small for all its cosmic significance. For the humans remaining aground, a moment of horror, staring at their displays, realizing that all their fears were true (not realizing how much worse than true). Five seconds, ten seconds, more change than ten thousand years of a human civilization. A billion trillion constructions, mold curling out from every wall, rebuilding what had been merely superhuman. This was as powerful as a proper flowering, though not quite so finely tuned...
