Information wants you to give me a dollar..

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's suppos….

University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (….

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years ….

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come ….

It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan p….

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they cons….

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands an….

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing..

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere..

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it..

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life..

It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be..

Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to….

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hop….

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier..

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable..

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud..

The past is a kind of future that has already happened..

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere..

Tomorrow composts today..