we might get to a space where nobody real­ly cares if a “real” object real­ly “exists” at all; a spime can prob­a­bly be made to exist if enough ener­gy is thrown at it, and the real social issue is fig­ur­ing out how to get rid of them, not to invent them or con­jure them up

(via Futures? a short inter­view with Bruce Ster­ling — pas­ta and vine­gar)