This Snow Crash thing — is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What's the difference? - Neal Stephenson

In your high school geology class you probably were taught that all life on earth exists in a paper-thin shell called the biosphere, which is trapped between thousands of miles of dead rock underfoot, and cold dead radioactive empty space above. Companies that sell OSes exist in a sort of technosphere. Underneath is technology that has already become free. Above is technology that has yet to be developed, or that is too crazy and speculative to be productized just yet. Like the Earth's biosphere, the technosphere is very thin compared to what is above and what is below.

Kids who are obsessed with locks frequently turn into adults who are obsessed with crypto.

Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire.