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You think this doesn’t apply to you, but you don’t run a used bookstore. Apple and Amazon have filed patents for technology designed to prevent users from transferring (read, reselling) their music, e-books, and other digital belongings. And you thought only farmers were being trapped by technology into buying their seeds every year.

If a teenager was being grounded for bad grades, losing an iPad might come up. But when an executive agrees to walk away with an eighth of a million dollars, why even mention an electronic gadget? That seems silly.

If Act One was failure and Act Three was death, Act Two was love. Love and death are not unrelated.

Toasters don’t jump off our counters to follow it. But the fears of one generation have been visited on the next. We have designed a machine that we cannot stop.

Why don’t meteorologists study meteors? It seems like they’re getting away with something.