There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities nowโstrange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.
Robin Sloan(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!
Robin SloanSo 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 itโs actually you thatโs time-shifted?
Robin SloanI feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
Robin Sloan...I canโt 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.
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