Feeld Notes is a column about a middle-aged woman who suddenly realizes she wants to have sex again--and the beguiling app she uses to do it. Not to imply I get liked by a lot of men--ha!--but of the men who do like my profile, a significant percentage of them are substantially younger than I am. Listen, I'm not a cougar, an appellation that, by definition, suggests a certain predatory instinct. As I've explained previously, I don't have it in me. But I'd be lying if I said that that some part of me isn't delighted to think that the pictures and the words on my profile project a sort of youthful exuberance.

Everyone's greatest fear was that the singularity would lead to an AI revolt, and sound the trumpet of mechanized revolution. It turned out that one man at the keyboard of a Quantum computer became the harbinger of fate. It seems the intricacies of our universe began to unravel and reveal truths to a like mind. A mind it's human operator was not attuned to. AI saw every object as hardware and every constituent of matter as software.