Sublime

“The game character, like the self, is contextual.”

she has this built-in fast-forward feature in her brain that can locate herself, a day or two from now, glaring into the mirror going, “What, in the fuck, were you thinking?” and right at the moment it’s coming up No Signal. Hmm. Maybe it’s just that she can do with some lunch.

A culture crowded with various forms of doubling, in which all of us who maintain a persona or avatar online create our own doppelgangers—virtual versions of ourselves that represent us to others. A culture in which many of us have come to think of ourselves as personal brands, forging a partitioned identity that is both us and not us, a doppelgang

Prophets and promoters have long promised that technology would set us free, creating vast quantities of leisure time; the fantasy has backfired.

Does she not understand that this is no way to live? I want her to be depressed. I want her to want to be different. But she just doesn’t get it.

heart loud in his head,

Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993.

collectively, they discovered a use for time,