The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

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

I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

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