The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.