While the lack of privacy was precisely what made Ballard's billennial city, Harrison's New York, Hersey's New Haven, and Silverberg's urban monads so horrific, the citizens of Brin's global society rejoice in the disappearance of an informational privacy that they have come to regard as nothing more than a protection for the privileges of the affluent (e.g. Swiss bank accounts) or a cloak for unlawful maneuvers of governmental and corporate institutions.

In short tutorials, the player learns the basics of skating: reverts, manuals and the ollie […]

All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.

You can give a handshake. Can you give a footshake too?