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They said she had the devil in her. They weren’t wrong. She’s got sin in her hips. Heaven in her milk. And the kind of sweetness that makes a man forget how to pray. They left her on my doorstep like she was a problem only God could solve. But I didn’t call on God. I called on the straps. The pump. The instinct I buried a long time ago. Now she kneels on padded leather. Fills the jars while I fill her. She’s not here for redemption. She’s here to be become what God intended. And I’ll burn for what I’ve done to her. But, when the villians who gave her to me come to reclaim her?...

George Simling has grown up in the city-state of Illyria, an enclave of logic and reason founded as a refuge from the Reaction, a wave of religious fundamentalism that swept away the nations of the 21st century. Yet to George, Illyria's militant rationalism is as close-minded and stifling as the faith-based superstition that dominates the world outside its walls. For George has fallen in love with Lucy. A prostitute. A robot. She might be a machine, but the semblance of life is perfect. And beneath her good looks and real human skin, her seductive, sultry, sluttish software is simmering on the edge of consciousness. To the city authorities robot sentience is a malfunction, curable by periodically erasing and resetting silicon minds. Simple maintenance, no real problem, it’s only a machine. But it’s a problem for George, he knows that Lucy is something more.

This book shows how trapped we are in a mechanized, consumer-driven society. It describes how the corporation-economy creates a Machine Culture in which all of us are oilers of our spiritual impoverishment. We have been cut off from the sacred. By initiating elder-leaders, establishing epiphanal communities, fasting from the media, and mapping the topography of our inner experience we can reclaim the sacred and reconceive a different future.

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 threw the entire business world into disarray. Not many businesses were prepared for a technological shift that was so sudden and drastic. Moreover, similar to the early days of the World Wide Web, the Artificial Intelligence revolution also comes with a fair share of hype. The overwhelming developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence, coupled with the mushrooming of AI firms, tools, and platforms, are enough to baffle even the most astute marketing managers.