...we know instantly whenever anyone touches our data—and who touched it. That’s the best one can hope for in a technologically advanced society. - Daniel Suarez

Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.

When I realized what our world had become, how humanity had become cogs in its own machine, I resolved to do something terrible . . . perhaps one of the worse things ever done. To exploit the automation of our world in order to plant the seed of a new system is reckless and irresponsible. But I didn’t see any other way we would change. Or could change. “But

I've been amused by the debate in America over whether torture is effective... Of course it's effective.