David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions..

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters ar….

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of ou….

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern ….

In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident ..

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a scienc….

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it..

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case….

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets k….

Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The ….

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry..

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them..

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. No….

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin..

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none..

Information wants to be free. Believe it..

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many i….

I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love I….

Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's t….

Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the res….

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire..