N THE Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, there is an Atari game. Playing , your task is to achieve fossilization, and therefore a future beyond your lifetime. But it’s difficult. Your avatar animal, mollusk, insect, or person needs to have the right kind of embodied structure, to arrive in a silty place at your death at just the exact right time, so you can be covered by a forgiving sediment that is not
