There was coffee. Life would go on. - William Gibson

Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?

There are no backwaters where things can breed — our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys. We’ve arrived at a level of commodification that may have negated the concept of counterculture.

Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as tall as the average human, and who sweated slowly but continuously, like and aged cheese.