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Books Are Really, Really Hard To Write. They Represent A Kind Of A Summit Of Grappling With What One Really Has To Say

If There's Any Object In Human Experience That's A Precedent For What A Computer Should Be Like, It's A Musical Instrument: A Device Where You Can Explore A Huge Range Of Possibilities Through An Interface That Connects Your Mind And Your Body, Allowing You To Be Emotionally Authentic And Expressive.

Musicians And Journalists Are The Canaries In The Coalmine, But, Eventually, As Computers Get More And More Powerful, It Will Kill Off All Middle-class Professions.

Separation Anxiety Is Assuaged By Constant Connection. Young People Announce Every Detail Of Their Lives On Services Like Twitter Not To Show Off, But To Avoid The Closed Door At Bedtime, The Empty Room, The Screaming Vacuum Of An Isolated Mind.

Some Of The Fantasy Objects Arising From Cybernetic Totalism (like The Noosphere, Which Is A Supposed Global Brain Formed By The Sum Of All The Human Brains Connected Through The Internet) Happen To Motivate Infelicitous Technological Designs. For Instance, Designs That Celebrate The Noosphere Tend To Energize The Inner Troll, Or Bad Actor, Within Humans.