What if – for just a few minutes or perhaps much longer – a machine could arrange the world so that no one would be thinking of you. The machine’s pitch might go something like this: “Are people thinking of you right now? About your so-called virtues, or are they remembering your many failures as a lover, an employee, a parent, an official – the trusts you betrayed – or your inability to be anything other than one utterly contemptible dirt-bag?” What price would you pay to just turn this … [Read more...]