Autonomous

by Annalee Newitz

They were from a good neighborhood in Calgary, and had always given their daughter access to the very best pharma money could buy. How could anything be going wrong with her mind?

He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges. As a result, Paladin felt many things without knowing why.

“That’s the thing about humans. People always think they’re being so clever with codes and euphemisms. But they’re desperate to say what they know.

But now we know there has been no one great disaster—only the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property.

The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy.