Nope. Look. The Raft is a media event. But in a much more profound, generalsense than you can possibly imagine.Huh?It's created by the media in that without the media, people wouldn't know itwas here,...
Natural Philosophy cannot advance without attacking theories that are old, and beating back new ones that are wrong, neither of which may be accomplished without doing some injury to their professors.
Linguistics got me into this excellent mess––only physics can get me out.
Like two arms of a snowflake, Mind and Matter grew out of a common center—and even though they grew independently and without communicating—each developing according to its own internal rules—neverthe...
Leibniz’s most fundamental assumption, namely that the universe makes sense and that the human has the power to make sense of it and that, consequently, pure metaphysics is no waste of time, remains p...
Lagos, typically for a nonbusinessman, had a fatal flaw: he thought too small.He figured that with a little venture capital, this neurolinguistic hackingcould be developed as a new technology that wou...
Jad said, The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters.Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.
Ita: (1) In late Praxic Orth, an acronym (therefore, in ancient texts sometimes written ITA) whose precise etymology is a casualty of the loss of shoddily preserved information that will forever enshr...
It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats, Vic says, looking through his magic site. Five guys on it. Headed our way. He fires another round. Correction. Four guys on it. Boom. Correction, they're not...
It's time for him to get over into the right lanes where theretards and the bimbo boxes poke along, random, indecisive, looking at eachpassing franchise's driveway like they don't know if it's a promi...
It's ironic that Juanita has come into this place in a low-tech, black-and-whiteavatar. She was the one who figured out a way to make avatars show somethingclose to real emotion. That is a fact Hiro h...
It would be easier, Doob said, if I could figure out what the hell she wanted. You’re assuming, Luisa said, that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way...
It was possible to look at actual smartphones and tablets and laptops that had been manufactured on Old Earth. They did not work anymore, but their technical capabilities were described on little plac...
It is what you don’t expect, he’d said, that most needs looking for. Do
It is what you don’t expect, he’d said, that most needs looking for.
It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I’m forced to do exactly what’s expected.
In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient. The...
If you are that much of a control freak, what sexual preferences does that translate into? I hope I’ll never know. I suppose you would want to dominate a woman. Wrong! Avi said. Sex is more complicate...
If these avatars were real people in a real street, Hiro wouldn't be able toreach the entrance. It's way too crowded. But the computer system thatoperates the Street has better things to do than to mo...
If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard...