Sublime

It’s a tablet, once considered the go-to device for science fiction stories about the future—my past—but they stopped being used when it was proven they changed brain chemistry, creating a vast societal addiction that reduced productivity and created generations of people capable of ignoring the world’s growing problems.

“gray goo” scenario

Enchanted objects: ordinary things made extraordinary.

The growth machine has pushed humans beyond the limits of our minds—but it is also pushing the planet beyond its ecological limits.