The first thing I became interested in in terms of 'Brain Storm' was neuroscience, and that is like saying you're interested in the universe. So ulti….

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on h….

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to out….

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They ju….

As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - '….

As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the mo….

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care..

The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitaliz….

I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust….

Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather h….

I always wanted to be a writer... 'Critical Care' was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating 'Critical Care' for year….

I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds o….

Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are….

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away fr….

Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folder….

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second la….

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us..