As an archaeologist, I'm very interested all things related to the passage of time and the importance of temporal perspectives. My username was inspired by Philip K. Dick's novel Galactic Pot-Healer, in which the main character is an archaeologist and in which Dick writes about an "SSA Machine"[1]. SSA is an abbreviation of sub specie aeternitatis and Dick described the phrase as "something seen outside of time"[2]. The phrase has a variety of meanings[3]. In general, it emphasizes the importance of temporal perspectives; therefore, as an archaeologist, I'm drawn to this idea. Dick's SSA Machine collected vast amounts of data by scanning human brains and extrapolated future conditions of interpersonal relationships[4]. The idea of collecting vast amounts of data from humans struck me as related to Wikipedia.
