The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Digients — AI creatures that learn slowly, at something like a child's pace.

People raise them. Years of unglamorous attention with no guarantee it pays off, long after the platform they live on goes out of fashion. Parenting turns out not to automate.

Care work persists — The tasks that survive are the ones that cannot be hurried.

The best prose on this list, and the most useful counterargument to everything else on it.