“Billions of years of planetary transformation had to happen for me to be able to have a phone in my pocket that lets me know that I have an email. And that seems like a very anticlimactic end to that process.”

“The internet is the most ambitious terraforming project ever undertaken by civilisation. Only instead of making not-Earth like planets more inhabitable for humans, we have made the Earth more inhabitable for humans (or non-corporeal personhood).”