A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me.

I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.