My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.

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.

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

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

Information wants to be free. Believe it.