“The universe gets older. So do I.”

— Cory Doctorow , book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)
Context: The universe gets older. So do I. So does my backup, sitting in redundant distributed storage dirtside, ready for the day that space or age or stupidity kills me. It recedes with the years, and I write out my life longhand, a letter to the me that I’ll be when it’s restored into a clone somewhere, somewhen. It’s important that whoever I am then knows about this year, and it’s going to take a lot of tries for me to get it right.

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