In minutes they might burn up months of creativity, but reach an audience beyond all their earlier dreams.

Weekdays, Miri was off at school; a limo pulled up for her every morning, always at the moment that the girl was ready to go.

In the modern world, success came from having the largest possible educated population and providing those hundreds of millions of creative people with credible freedom.

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if you watch trillions of things, you will often see one-in-a-million coincidences.

“You should get medical attention, Carlos.” “I am. See?” Medical flags had popped up around his head. “I alarmed out on the stairs. There’s at least one real doctor watching me now. I—” He hesitated, listening. “Okay, they want me at the clinic. Some kind of brain scan.

Learning a language, or a career specialty, changes a person. Cram in such skills willy-nilly and you distort the underlying personality.

Now when he looked at a real object in “just that way,” explanations would pop up. With the proper squint or stare at attendant icons, he got the added detail he wanted. Look at the object a different way, and he often could see through and beyond it!

But he would flail and flail—and when the command did work, the success gave him a pitiful spike of joy and he worked even harder. Like a boy with a new computer game. Or a trained rat.