The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Bruce SterlingHumans 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.
Bruce SterlingWhen you canโt imagine how things are going to change, that doesnโt mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.
Bruce SterlingThe future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.
Bruce Sterling