When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

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

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.