I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me
Time is money, but also money is money.
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.