And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of...
Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap.
He gestured for it to sit. The bench vibrated briefly in anticipation, shedding drops of rain. The peripheral sat.
I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some par...
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that su...
There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, so...
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
It’s like wearing your cock ring to meet the pope, and making sure he sees it.
It’s about atemporality. About opting out of the industrialization of novelty. It’s about deeper code.
Had me this boy once. You kinda remind me . . . She turned and surveyed the corridor. Johnny, his name was.
Far more creativity, today, goes into marketing of products than into the products themselves
They’d started out as a church, or in a church, not liking anyone being gay or getting abortions or using birth control. Protesting military funerals, which was a thing. Basically they were just assho...
The men in bars, who explain every dark secret of this world, Tito, have you noticed, no secret requires more than three drinks to explain. Who killed the Kennedys? Three drinks. America’s real motive...
The charges have to do with conspiracy to augment an artificial intelligence.
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
Take me home, she said, and the words hit me like a whip. I think I shook my head. Take me home. There were levels of pain there, and subtlety, and an amazing cruelty. And I knew then that I'd never b...