I'm sure you could play some kind of computer game with very intelligent, very small, invisible computers...You could have some entertaining way to p… - Bruce Sterling

Agriculture is the oldest and most vicious of humanity’s bio-technologies.

As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.
The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.
These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.

“But Dad... what if I just beat people up with my baton? Wouldn’t they have to do whatever I say?”
Pitar laughed. “That’s been tried. It never works out well.”