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“There was a disconnect, I noticed, between the speculative musings about what might be possible in a technologically enhanced future and the banal exigencies of living in a semi-communal environment. Who could arrange for a grocery store run? What were the social activities planned for the evening? Where was the trash room, and could people please remember to clean the shared kitchen? Even this futuristic city could not avoid the realities of humans cohabitating, and I started to feel that I was bunking in a college dormitory. One evening, someone got stung by a scorpion, and medical care had to be sought outside Próspera, which didn’t have a doctor who could treat it.” The Island Where People Go to Cheat Death.

+ “Skijoring is a high-adrenaline, low-temperature sport that involves a horse and its rider pulling a skier through a snow-packed obstacle course at full speed.” (I hadn’t heard of this until five minutes ago and I already know it’s my worst sport.)