The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.
Cory DoctorowUniversal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
Cory DoctorowOnce you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
Cory DoctorowThis is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
Cory DoctorowRight, and you point out something important which is that people who donโt want to pay, people who are pirates, donโt get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. Itโs only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
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