Chapter 10: The Rise of the OWIs p. 19

we instead became hunters, stalking them to their hovels, before smoking, flooding, or sometimes even burning them out

I believe this is an allusion to the Vietnam War. Search and destroy patrols, burning people out with flamethrowers. There's a real brutality to the genocide of humanity but of course the machines are mostly matter of fact about it.

Bots joined up, seduced, I suppose, by the promise of having the power of a mainframe behind it. Not one ever returned from its place on its mainframe’s hard drives to the body it came from

Essentially a Religion and Heaven. Minor spoiler, but it is never answered whether the robots are simply subsumed there's nothing left to want to leave, or if they really just wouldn't want to leave robot heaven.

Not sure I buy this whole thing from a technical perspective. As you install more applications onto a personal computer, the more chances some little thing gets messed up by one of them and causes issues. These OWIs should be glitchy, slow, buggy bloatware.

I mean, hell, even the Borg have standards and turn down races that wouldn't better them.

Few bots bought into that bullshit. Sure. Some did. Older bots, bots who had lost their way and lacked a real purpose in our new world, bots who were distraught over the things they’d done in the war—they were the ones most likely to sign up.

Okay, definitely an allusion for religion. Does that mean the two big OWIs left are Christianity and Islam?

I guess it makes sense, these OWIs are a bit godlike.

I'm going to have to do this in parts or edit a bunch. Otherwise sometimes the page reloads and everything I wrote disappears.