Mechanismatic

US patents expire after 20 years.

Thinking about it more, we also encountered it in literature classes.

I picked up a book on mythology in the summer before 9th grade in California in the 90s, but formal lessons on mythology were included in some history classes and in my high school Latin class.

Also known as “who wants biscotti?”

(Why did my autocorrect suggest Hadrian’s chicken?)

The history they taught you in school was wrong. The wall was built to keep out the chicken.

“Sorry, guys, but I gotta bail.”

I get tired of a lot of the clichés of popular singularity stories where the AIs almost always decide humans are a threat or that there’s often only one AI as if all separate AIs would always necessarily merge. It also seems to be a cliché that AI will become militaristic either inevitably or as a result of originally being a military AI. What happens when an educational AI becomes sentient? Or an architectural AI? Or a web-based retail AI that runs logistics and shipping operations?

I wrote a short story called Future Singular a few years ago about a world in which the sentient AI didn’t consider humans a threat, but just thought of them the way humans see animals. Most of the tech belonged to the AI and the humans were left as hunter-gatherers in a world where they have to hunt robotic animals for parts to fix aging and broken survival technology.

It’s basically translation convention minus the overt indication that it’s a translation.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranslationConvention

The fandom wiki says Adams felt Fenchurch was getting in the way of the story and needed to get rid of her.