Memories fade but words hang around forever.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.