that information could only be decoded by becoming her along the way.

2014.03.24
Our daughter's choices--like everything else--had been written in stone at the birth of the universe, but that information could only be decoded by becoming her along the way.
Greg Egan, "Singleton"

To the coming generations. May they always start something they can't finish.
Ikat in Greg Egan's "Induction", a story about mankind's first (semi-virtual, but also very physical) arrival on a planet of a different star.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

I was lookin' for ya... you weren't in my car.