We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.
Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.
Time is money, but also money is money.
I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.