Things ain't what they used to be

Interesting story from Peter Watts, looking at an SF classic (short story and film) from an alternative perspective. It's not really very good writing (he said politely), but it's good SF in the sense of making you think about things slightly differently.

"That was how these empty skins moved of their own volition, why I'd found no other network to integrate. There it was: not distributed throughout the body but balled up into itself, dark and dense and encysted.  I had found the ghost in these machines."

[Poll #1507038]