I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

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

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.

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Everybody has a different Internet.

Open-source is a means of production.

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.