Just as there are infinite words to choose from, we have infinite tasks that could occupy our time, from meeting with clients to updating Facebook.

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In other words, they can be made to have an infinite life.

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Both are digital systems, in which words or base pairs are recombined to make an infinite possibility of messages. (Elsewhere I once noted the numerical similarity between Shakespeare's vocabulary of about 20, 000 distinct words and his genome of about 21, 000 genes).

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In it, I spent 3, 000 words discussing the mind-bending ending of the BioShock Infinite, and readers spent thousands more giving their own opinions on all the events that unfold in the finale.

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