Ebooks talk has a hidden posthumanist rant in it

By at 5:56 am Sunday, Aug 1

This is pretty funny -- kaksoisagentti took my ebooks talk and replaced "book" with "human," "ebook" with "posthuman" and "paper" with "flesh." The results are surprisingly cogent:
2. Posthumans complement flesh humans. Having an posthuman is good. Having a flesh human is good. Having both is even better. One reader wrote to me and said that he read half my first novel from the bound human, and printed the other half on scrap-flesh to read at the beach. Students write to me to say that it's easier to do their term fleshs if they can copy and paste their quotations into their word-processors. Baen readers use the electronic editions of their favorite series to build concordances of characters, places and events.
Link (Thanks, kaksoisagentti!)

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