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

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

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

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.