A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Everybody has a different Internet.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.