The Rock & the Hard place

William said:

Not sure what it may mean, but about twenty feet from this Florentine intersection (of a side street and what I would consider an alley) a branch of American Apparel was being installed. That's on Purgatorio. Perhaps Inferno should get a Starbucks.

I remember myself being on this same corner and uttering some then-funny witty remark...

On his video, where he speaks about his new novel Spook Country he remarks:

Technology will eventually take us to a point were something will change so much that beyond that point we will not be able to recognize any event at all and whatever that is left of us, of our species beyond that point looking back won't recognize us as being the same species.