Here is a new paper of mine that may be interesting to fans of categories and n-categories: Higher-Dimensional Algebra and Planck-Scale Physics to appear in "Physics Meets Philosophy at the Planck Scale", eds. Craig Callender and Nick Huggett, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge. This is a nontechnical introduction to recent work on quantum gravity that uses ideas from higher-dimensional algebra. We argue that reconciling general relativity with the Standard Model requires a `background-free quantum theory with local degrees of freedom propagating causally'. We describe the insights provided by work on topological quantum field theories such as quantum gravity in 3-dimensional spacetime. These are background-free quantum theories lacking local degrees of freedom, so they only display some of the features we seek. However, they suggest a deep link between the concepts of `space' and `state', and similarly those of `spacetime' and `process', which we argue is to be expected in any background-free quantum theory. We sketch how higher-dimensional algebra provides the mathematical tools to make this link precise. Finally, we comment on attempts to formulate a theory of quantum gravity in 4-dimensional spacetime using `spin networks' and `spin foams'. Available in LaTeX and Postscript form at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9902017 and in Postscript form at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/planck.ps