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But Darrell's reasoning was slightly more subtle,- he recognized that almost all computer geeks got their first look at a computer through some kind of computer game. Darrell believed that games transformed the box from a work tool to a plaything, and thereby burned a positive association into the …

Now the ironmen had always believed in the principle that what made them special was their raw brainpower, not their acquired knowledge. Anybody could study a subject, learn the details, develop expertise. The way they usually talked about it was that their brainpower was indivisible and _transfe…

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

Through all of this they continued to document their remote working life on social media. The pictures were always stunning, enticing—prickly pear groves, Camparis on red plastic beach tables, sunsets over vineyards, carved tufa limestone facades, stray cats, their laptops usually somewhere in the …

There was still the coast, of course, but somehow even that was different from how they had pictured it. The fishing villages had no fishermen in them, and the little bars around the main piazza weren’t patronized by old people playing cards but by groups of teenagers with ripped bodies and blaring…