Occupation: Author Birth: April 14, 1954
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really ca….
The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerati….
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing..
Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it..
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. Ther….
As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the ima….
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?.
I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex..
Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these win….
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual dis….
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person..
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide b….
The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If the….
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings ….
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, ….
The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched..
I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there w….
Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society..
I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most ….
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter….
Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longe….