That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.