# The Net May Become the Constant While Home Becomes the Place You Go by Bruce Sterling > “First, your home is a constant, while the Net is a place you go; then the Net becomes a constant while your home is a place you go.” > **— Bruce Sterling**, *2004, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT'S YOUR LAW?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [Sterling's Law](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11965) — Edge published this exact, continuous passage in its 2004 Annual Question collection, *WHAT'S YOUR LAW?*. The response page preserves the surrounding argument and qualifications. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2004 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2004 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response cohort and this passage's promotion status. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|Never Going to Make It!]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Digital Evolution|Digital Evolution]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Artificial Life|Artificial Life]] - [[wiki/Digital Evolution|Digital Evolution]] - [[wiki/Technological Evolution|Technological Evolution]] - [[wiki/Virtual Reality|Virtual Reality]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “First, your home is a constant, while the Net is a place you go; then the Net becomes a constant while your home is a place you go.” — Bruce Sterling, 2004, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT'S YOUR LAW?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bruce-sterling-net-become-constant-while-home-becomes ```