“A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.”

“Someday, it will be hard to remember why we were once so fired up about 3G connectivity and the wonders of mobile broadband. Seamless, lightning-fast connectedness will be a given everywhere on Earth, and today's gadgets will be quaint museum pieces. At that point, all we'll care about is what kind of life these devices have created for us. And if it isn't a good life, we'll wonder what we did wrong.”

“To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.”

“The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.”

“And exactly how old are you MacRieve ?""Twelve hundreds, give or take.""Great Hekate, you're a relic. Don't you have a museum exhibit to be in somewhere ?”

“I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.”