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 … - Robin Sloan

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

"They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue."
Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines — it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

They're just bacteria. They don't think or plan. They just...exist.'
'Just exist? They do things we only dream of. They are fecund and potent, they can speak to one another with chemicals and light, they can form teams — oh, the teams they can form. Millions strong, all working together perfectly. If we could cooperate like that — if we could even get close — we would have all of our problems solved.