Chapter fourPepper - You ever get the feeling that you’re just a rat in a maze, running from one bit of cheese-flavored jellylike substance to another? Of course you do. We all do. The sociologists say that’s normal. That feeling of paralyzed futility within the hypersonic whirl of chipcoin numbers and dataflow is simply the Zen-like stasis of modern life! Take joy that your existence is translated into numbers; they move so much faster than words and take up so much less bandwidth and storage space! We don’t move, Pepper. We just oscillate. Why not make your tawdry existence meaningful with a cookie-cutter cubbyhole full of obsolete Chinese electronics and rickety but expensive furniture? Why not prove your worth to yourself by building redundant Netspaces that rehash information alrea

