I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I dont mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.

Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.