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mcc

I have this image in my head: In the nanomaterial future, it's cheap as ink to make product packaging that has animated eink with touch-interactive surfaces. When you're done with that carton of coke cans you move a square on the label, like unlocking an old iPhone, and the material pizoelectrically retracts from a box to a tiny paper-textured square for disposal. With litter now a thing made extinct, sketchy neighborhoods are marked by piles of multicolored confetti squares blowing in the wind

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blaine

@mcc ✨ this is extremely Diamond Age. Probably (easily?) my favourite of his books.

Crobi, lightning goddess

@mcc just a street ornamented with the least interesting origami humans have ever conceived.

Sage Sharp

@mcc Oh goodness, those paper squares could become worse than glitter.

"Oh hey, you've got something stuck in your beard."

"Oops, sorry, that was my cereal box from this morning."

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