When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

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.

Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza iwth roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shard an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.

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.

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

A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.

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