A Bot-puppeteer from the old days:
[link|http://members.iweb.net.au/~steveoc/|Steve O'Connor] - appears to be in stasis.. and we haven't seen anything from N.I.C.E. lately [Nations Institute for Computing Excellence], the sponsoring org for: I forget the name of his bucolic M$-Shill-bot - t'warnt Billy-Bob but (?)
And we know that the folks like my Gramma - their fossils still hangin out at
Human Events and other generators of 99 44/100ths pure jingoism - lack both the techno savvy and any vestiges of a sense of Humor [about Anything] - to run a Bot: hell they Are Bots. Can you have a Bot-bot (yet) ??
As to the deduction of Marlowe's residence in a ROM.. dubious. Long before even the Osborne1, people! were bein programmed from tot-hood onwards about: The Truth. Heady stuff that - you begin to believe you Are the cabal. So, once you imagine all you are is somethin called 'intellect', I guess the wetware tends to dry out after a bit and it's as if all you ever were was a calculator.
60/40 it's just another humanoid smitten by Raymond Chandler et al and maybe imaginin havin an office just below Sam Spade's, with Mary Astor n'Sydney Greenstreet droppin in for some hi-jinx with Oriental boat captains and *Elisha Cook, Jr. - someone even Marlowe could disarm.
* about whom was written:
A near-hermit in real life who lived in a remote mountain home and had to receive his studio calls by courier, Cook nonetheless never wanted for work, even late in life. Fans of the 1980s series Magnum PI will remember Cook in a recurring role as a the snarling elderly mobster Ice Pick. Having appeared in so many "cult" films, Elisha Cook Jr. has always been one of the most eagerly sought out interview subjects by film historians.
He was of course, the gunsel in
Maltese Falcon, which made his career.
(Hey.. it's ALL just a play anyway. Will S. explained it all to us! The play needs an occasional Iago, whisperin about doin violence to Those Others\ufffd and goin on about how nobody can be trusted n'such. We attend these at our own peril.)
Ashton
on with the bot-play
That's Entertainment