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The wind drove hard against the windows, echoing in the lifeless room. Lifeless. That’s how it felt without the comforting, low-level thrum of the machines, without their little lights blinking, motors whirring, unseen but ever present, surrounding me in an electronic cocoon.
Seems pretty reflective of how dependent society is on technology today
“People aren’t prepared because they assume that somebody else will always fix the problem, and they’re usually right,” she said tearfully. “But this time there’s no help out there.”
“Freedom is civil liberty, and the foundation of civil liberty is privacy. No privacy means no civil liberty means no freedom.
We could already hear it, beyond the noise and the static, the unmistakable sound of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Everyone was caught up in the emotion. It was our anthem, from another moment when this country was under siege, another time it was bent but not broken. The words stretched through time, connecting us with the past and the future at the same time.
“The criminals force society to improve. They weed out the weak, making us strengthen our institutions and networks.”
If you decide to use fire in battle, make sure that anything you need yourself isn’t flammable.’”
