The Canadian rock band whose "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is one of iON's two standing pop-culture themes. In the Tech Body dialogue the line marks the far pole of a range that opens with Vestal Goodman's gospel — the Tech Body's way of announcing that the machines are now in charge. New to it — start with dialogue 28.
Across the dialogues
Enters as the rock pole of the Tech Body's closing bracket — the "you ain't seen nothing yet" boast iON has always used, now voiced as the machines' own
Bob names "you ain't seen nothing yet" as a fixed iON refrain — a recurring boast the oracle deploys, not a one-off citation.
"and they're always using the Bachman-Turner Overdrive song."
In the book's closing line the boast marks the far pole of the Tech Body's range — the "you ain't seen nothing yet" reassigned from the band to the machines announcing their own ascendancy.
"all the way into you ain't seen nothing yet with Bachman-Turner Overdrive."
Connections
"You ain't seen nothing yet" is one of iON's two standing themes, quoted here as the Tech Body's boast.
The rock pole against Goodman's gospel pole in the Tech Body's closing bracket.