Instantiation

by Greg Egan

If you grew up believing that Facebook could give you ‘news’ and Google could give you ‘information’, your expectations for quality control would already be nonexistent.”

“The one thing that makes life bearable is knowing that the world yields to scrutiny. Beneath the chaos there’s always some order to be perceived – some sense to be made of the sources of our hardship. What makes us human is the desire to understand these things well enough to ameliorate them.”