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Tomorrow composts today.
Find a client and get a job.
Everybody has a different Internet.
Open-source is a means of production.
Information wants to be free. Believe it.
Information wants you to give me a dollar.
The future is a process, not a destination.
There's no victory-condition for being human.
Every passing year brings us more past futures.
The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.
Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.
Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.
It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
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?
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.
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.
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
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.
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 don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
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.
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 Italy.
They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.
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 skyscrapers.
When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.
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 our civilization.
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 supposed to come next.
Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.
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 longer technically possible.
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 from a much larger trend.
Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G- ???