Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.

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

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.