After three weeks of disuse, the printer doesn’t want to acknowledge anything the laptop has to say.
Three weeks is, apparently, the time it takes for the second law of thermodynamics to work its course.
More ominously:
“Nevertheless,” continued Callisto, “he found in entropy, or the measure of disorganization for a closed system, an adequate metaphor to apply to certain phenomena in his own world. He saw, for example, the younger generation responding to Madison Avenue with the same spleen his own had once reserved for Wall Street, and in American ‘consumerism’ discovered a similar tendency from the least to the most probable, from differentiation to sameness, from ordered individuality to a kind of chaos. He . . . envisioned a heat-death for his culture in which ideas, like heat-energy, would no longer be transferred, since each point in it would ultimately have the same quantity of energy, and intellectual motion would, accordingly, cease.”
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