His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

We 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.

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

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

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.