Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

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.

Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female - making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. ... Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system - not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it.

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