We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
William GibsonNovels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
William GibsonWe don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.
William GibsonThere are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
William Gibson