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Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happenin….
Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some….
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper into it. What's actua….
Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking..
I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot o….
There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make us….
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to h….
On the one hand, technology is more mysterious. On the other hand, we're more aware of its limitations. Every time I watch Star Trek, I'm highly awar….
There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like f….
People really don't understand the technology they're using. It's been talked about a lot. Apple products in particular are designed in such a way th….