The Fear Index

THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO WORKERS THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL HAVE NO MANAGERS THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE A DIGITAL ENTITY THE COMPANY OF THE FUTURE WILL BE ALIVE

liquidity replenishment points, or LRPs. In her subsequent testimony to Congress, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission explained that LRPs are best thought of as a “speed bump” and are intended to dampen volatility in a given stock by temporarily converting from an automated market to a manual auction market when a price move

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. —RICHARD DAWKINS, The Selfish Gene (1976)

asperity

He felt quite cheerful; he always felt good after he’d fired someone: it was cathartic. He smiled at Rajamani’s assistant: a pretty girl; she would have to go too, unfortunately. Quarry took a pre-Christian view of these rituals: it was always best to bury the servants with the dead master in case he might require them in the next world.

Quarry knew in his heart that this was true. He had allowed technology to enfeeble him. He was like some lazy driver who had become entirely reliant on parking sensors and satellite navigation to get him around town.

sangfroid.”

“He said to tell you that ‘VIXAL is lifting the delta hedge.’ He said you’d know what that meant.”

ugly you could make yourself by crying, like scrawling over a drawing. After a while she put her hand into her jacket pocket to try to find a tissue, and felt instead the sharp edges of a business card.