Nate: There's no way in hell you're editing that out.

Alex: ....sooo...hacking the E911 protocol. Serious business, amirite?

David: Man just wait till you actually read the thing; right now it's fascinating because like, I talked a bit about how Sterling has a way of making mundane things sound science-fictional and I love his account here of file sharing. I mean, it's just file sharing and information wanting to be free and it being easier every day to copy digital information but it reads like you're reading the first 3 chapters of Outbreak or something.

Alex: Absolutely. Maybe it's just the abysmal data speeds they were stuck with back then, but every download seems to mean something; every file seems important. I wonder if that's because of how Sterling writes, or because data is fast becoming valueless.

David: I think it's a combination of the two. Like, that really was the culture; I'm just old enough that I remember getting data being an act with value, and being kinda weirdly sacred in a way because it was so weird and difficult.