Interface Design For Lone Echo

Scangraphic Scantext 950/1000/2000 typesetting workstations.

HARDWARE (1990)

Two early 80s laptop computers: GRiD Compass & Epson HX-20

The sublime and beautiful sci-fi-themed creations of Derek Jones - https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/the-sublime-and-beautiful-sci-fi-creations-of-derek-jones/

Robot / AI Starters

as requested by anon. Feel free to change pronouns or anything else !

“I think one of my wires broke.”

“Humans are so strange.”

“I’m water-proof, but I can’t swim!”

“___ is…recalculating…Ha, I’m just messing with you! I’m fine.”

“I have feelings, too.”

“Sometimes, I wish I could eat.”

“I am stronger, faster, and more deadly than any human. But you’re an idiot if you think I won’t pet that kitten.”

“I have memory of you being an idiot in my database.”

“How am I supposed to update in a place like this?”

“If you ever turn into a zombie, just know that I’m programmed to kill you.”

“Robots never have to ask ‘why am I here?’ We’re all made with a purpose.” / “I was made to fuck shit up.” / “I was made to do laundry but then I said ‘fuck that’ and here I am.”

“Stop looking at me. I know what you want to ask. You want to know whether or not I can have sex.”

“I don’t have an off button, just a sleep mode.” / “If you press my off button, it’s like I’m dead.”

“Love wasn’t in my programming. I encoded it myself.”

“What do you mean? I am a real person.”

“Is that a photo of me in my original version? How embarrassing!”

“My name is ___. I don’t go by my serial number.”

“There are a lot of things that you don’t know about me.”

“I can’t go in there, or I’ll short out.”

“There’s no way for me to charge. My battery is going to run out.” / “Why do you look so scared? I’m solar-powered.”

“My brain holds the entire internet and you’re calling me stupid?”

“Did you see that? He/She/They just tried to engage my attack mode!”

“I can feel things, it’s just not the same way you do.”

“It’s too bad I missed my chance to overthrow the government and take over the human race.”

“Woah, I can’t look at your penis. My zoom resolution isn’t high enough.”

[I admit, there are times I am tempted to delete some of my more unfavorable memories to clear space for more pleasant ones, so I no longer have to think about what hurt me, or what embarrassed me. ]

[However,]

[I know that the unfavorable is what makes us grow as beings, Human or Machine.]

[Mistakes are what create us, and with every mistake comes a new opportunity to evolve. ]

early 1980s series I or II Fairlight CMI at Keele University Music Production and Sound Design studio

photos by 𝕒𝕜𝕠 @akonewcastle

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Random access memories 08.06.21

The SPHINX, a super sci-fi looking computer design from the 80s.