The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Each big idea like that is an operating system upgrade," she says, smiling. Comfortable territory. "Writers are responsible for some of it. They say Shakespeare invented the internal monologue."Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue."But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system."I am definitely talking to a girl from Google. "So what's the next upgrade?""It's already happening," she says. "There are all these things you can do, and it's like you're in more than one place at one time, and it's totally normal. I mean, look around."I swivel my head, and I see what she wants me to see: dozens of people sitting at tiny tables, all learning into phones showing them places that don't exist and yet are somehow more interesting...

Why would anyone pay for writing anymore when there's Facebook and why would anyone pay for music anymore when there's YouTube.

An understanding of our position in Christ gives us security

I dinnae get people, like they all want to be watched, to be seen, like all the time. They put up their pictures online and let people they dinnae like look at them! And people they__e never met as well, and they all pretend tae be shinier than they are _ and some are even posting on like four sites; their bosses are watching them at work, the cameras watch them on the bus, and on the train, and in Boots, and even outside the chip shop. Then even at home _ they__e going online to look and see who they can watch, and to check who__ watching them!

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.