The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends,” he says, “and here, we are rich indeed. - Robin Sloan

It’s not like we have the same brains as people a thousand years ago.”
Wait: “Yes we do.”
“We have the same hardware, but not the same software.

And then, on a sunny Friday morning, for three seconds, you can't search for anything. You can't check your email. You can't watch any videos. You can't get directions. For just three seconds, nothing works, because every single one of Google's computers around the world is dedicated to this task.

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.