First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human… - John Brunner

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we’re going to have the brain race.

Out of all the calls taken, nearly half — I think they say forty-five percent — are from people who are afraid someone else knows data that they don’t and is gaining an unfair advantage by it. For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it’s wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

He was wondering what society would have been like if we’d socialised cannabis instead of dangerous drugs like alcohol and religion.

LOGIC The principle governing human intellection. Its nature may be deduced from examining the following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: “I can’t so you musn’t,” and “I can but you musn’t.”