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

Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.

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.

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

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

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.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.