A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.