This is a very good article -- and it is about much more than Bell Labs. In the later sections the author attacks singularity problems, humanities place as it

This is a very good article -- and it is about much more than Bell Labs. In the later sections the author attacks singularity problems, humanities place as it continues to virtualize more and more of itself, and frames Bell Labs as the remnants of reality left over (and maybe we still inhabit) after we move our minds further and further from our physical presence.