Microserfs

by Douglas Coupland

It only incidentally began showcasing video games in the early 1980s. Games were considered a sideline novelty and have only recently been revealed as the passageway for the future of the human race.

We entered the kitchen, where Bug and Amy were discussing an idea of Bug’s, that “humans don’t exist as actual individual ‘selves’—rather, there is only the ‘probability’ of you being you at any given moment. While you’re alive and healthy, the probability remains pretty high, but when you’re sick or when you’re old, the probability of you being yourself shrinks. The chance of your ‘being all there’ becomes less and less. When you die, the probability of being ‘you’ drops to zero.”