Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having my perception of the world expanded daily, 24/7, by being able to monitor the reactions of 100-and-some people throughout the world that I personally follow so I have some sense of who they are. There has never really been anything like that before, at least in terms of the digestible 140-character bandwidth that Twitter is based on. I am able to wake up, open Twitter, and sort of glance across the psychic state of the planet.

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

The 'Net is a waste of time.

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

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.