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I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
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I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.
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Horrible
Thrillers
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If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.
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Earning
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I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.
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Technology
Analysts
Years
Analyst
Systems
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Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
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Games
Play
Reality
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Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.
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Names
Political
Simple
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Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.
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Hell
Proof
World
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I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
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Democracy
People
Too Much
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Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
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Fiction
Ideas
Reality
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When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
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Civilization
Strategy
Survival
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Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can't feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?
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Heart
Patents
People
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My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.
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Different
Horizon
People
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I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.
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Technology
Country
Thinking
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I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.
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Relate
Increasingly
Spreading
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When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.
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Defense
Establishment
Start People Feel
High-Tech
Nerve
Thriller
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Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'
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Baroque
Fascinating
Pages
Wall
Cycle
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We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
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Book
Needs
Population
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In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.
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Games
Gun
Numbers
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We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.
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Crash
Inevitable
Population
Species
Attacked
Leaf
Parasite
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I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business.
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Computer
Differentiate
Labs
Messed
Onto
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I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.
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Batteries
Giving
Phones
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Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed.
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Compelling
Publishing
Succeed
Authors
Farm
Voices
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I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.
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Age
Degrees
English Literature
Great American
Novelists
Realistic
Aside
Degree
Early Age
Very Early Age
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We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.
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Discovered
Flaw
Medium
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Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.
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Data
Movement
Phones
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If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.
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Capable
Literacy
Software
Life Technology World
Citizen
Outcome
Test
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For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?
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Average
Bmw
Two
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Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.
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Enemy
Perfect
Simple
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I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.
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Figures
Accountable
Anybody
Concerns
Private
Wield
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Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
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Might
Office
Sneakers
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A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.
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Data
People
Powerful
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We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.
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Circumstances
Evolve
Inevitable
Better Job
Dealing
Systems
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At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources and fossil fuel make the status quo untenable. The only question is whether civil society will survive the transition.
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Issues
Passing Away
Transition
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But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.
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Successful
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A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.
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Kids
Opportunity
Decision
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Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.
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House
Sides
Your Side
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I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.
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Cells
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Thinking
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I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I don't mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.
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Civilization
Individual
Mean People
Robust
Self Reliant
Solutions
Wish
People More Wish
Area
Idea
Different Areas
Durable
Express
People Wish More
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The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.
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Appreciated
Explore
Heading
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Widely
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In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.
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I think that for all of the dangers of technology spreading, I think it is more dangerous in some ways that it doesn't. My simple reason for that is we've got 7 billion people on the planet, and we have these very serious problems, and I think we don't know who's going to have the answers to the problems that are coming around the bend.
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Answers
Bend
Billion
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Simple Reason
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Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it.
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