So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.