Media lets you clone pieces of yourself and send them out into the world to have conversations on your behalf. Even while you’re sleeping, your media —your books, your blog posts, your tweets—it’s on the march. It’s out there trying to making connections. Mostly it’s failing, but that’s okay: these days, copies are cheap. We’re all Jamie Madrox now.

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We all do this; we all use media every day to extend our senses and our spheres of influence. At some scale, sure, things gets weird, and you lose track of you, and suddenly you’re being choked to death by your own robotic arm. But way before you get to that point, you get these amazing powers:

The power to reach beyond yourself, outward in space and forward in time.The power to have conversations—really rich, meaningful conversations—with more people than you could ever break bread with.And, increasingly, the power to get reports back from your little platoon—to see how your media is performing.

We’re all media cyborgs now.