As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.