Click opera

Click opera:
"Sterling introduces his concept of the spime: an archive of data about the space-time co-ordinates of objects. 'In the future there will be millions of small histories for billions of small objects.' This is the central metaphor of his way of looking at objects, and I think you could say that a spime (the narrative accumulated by technologies 1-6, as well as others that Sterling doesn't talk about, like cell phones, peer-to-peer and bluetooth) is like a novel; it's an inventory, a narrative of all the events which happen to an object, and it also produces the object."

See, it's just this kind of crazy talk that makes me yearn for grad school. Somehow when I'm fighting with HL&P for a few more days of electricity I can't find the proper amount of enthusiasm for these ideas. But really, it's quite brilliant...