on selfishness in the elevator section of TPK (19). draws on How We Become Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles: how we've moved towards a cultural glorification of computation rather than humanity, and how that's represented in TPK by the accountants doing what is essentially computation. goes into Claude Sylvanshine being a stand-in for Claude Shannon; the quote from the title is actually something he says on p370. suggests that we think of TPK as an almanac rather than a novel, and that "cohabitational harmony between consciousness and information, human and machine, is both possible and productive" (p186)