At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word...) has the potential to improve our lives, wound it, and also to create unexpected accidents. It's not the...
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.
Back home, we can't kill them fast enough, he says. Even Grahamites offer blue bills for their skins. Probably the only thing they've ever done that I agreed with.Mmm, yes. Emiko's brow wrinkles thoug...