Future
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Cancer is, at bottom, a theft of time. Everything else about the disease, the pain, the treatments, the vocabulary of battle we drape over it, is detail. The crime itself is that years you were owed are taken. So imagine the strange morning when medicine announces that it has finally caught the thief, completely, for…
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For all of human history, memory was the treasure and forgetting was the thief. Every technology of civilization, the alphabet, the library, the printing press, the photograph, the cloud, was a weapon aimed at the thief. Knowledge kept escaping through the holes in our heads, and we spent five thousand years plugging them. We won.…
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The law has always had a poverty line, and crossing it downward has repeatedly been a crime. Vagrancy, begging, sleeping in public, owing money you could not repay, all of these have carried sentences, some within living memory. Crossing a wealth line upward has never carried one. Wealth has a floor with police standing on…