Sci-fi idea – future world where everything filtered to end user – houses filter visitors, phone calls filter/alter conversations based on preferences (that become implicit as you grow up in world) – siftware – great theme to bring up standard epistemological question – end panglossian society protected from outside world – crux of course is…

Pure moments of embarassment §16,970 Sat at desk, with dictionary of quotations open in front of me at completely inappropriate section for computer magazine, with web page open on computer “how to make lysergic acid in the home”, and big chunky headphones on spewing out the bonzo dog doodah band’s “we are normal and we…