Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn’t have wanted.
The street finds its own uses for things.
I find it interesting to see people – mostly people who are younger than I am – going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn’t click, he would say.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society’s flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.
I’m quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I’m a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don’t like to talk about other people’s work work-in-progress.
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
Why shouldn’t we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
I don’t have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.
When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I’ve found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.
The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It’s an element of human evolution that’s completely out of control. It’s sort of driving itself, and I don’t see it ceasing to do that.
I’m not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
I wanted to make room for antiheroes.