“ You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life. Clyde DeSouza
“ Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code? David Pearce
“ You know, the aspirants believe this is the only true existence. That everything outside is an illusion, a shadow play created by the ancestor gods to cradle us until we can build our own tailored rea… Richard K. Morgan
“ I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future FM-2030
“ A lot of people recoil from the word "drugs" - which is understandable given today's noxious street drugs and their uninspiring medical counterparts. Yet even academics and intellectuals in our societ… David Pearce
“ A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize. Tsutomu Nihei
“ Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself opening a can of tuna fish and you die. One puncture in your foot and your life leaks out t… Paul Theroux
“ Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years FM-2030
“ The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real questions facing us is not 'What do we wa… Yuval Noah Harari
“ Technology isn’t what makes us “post-human” or “transhuman,” as some writers and scholars have recently suggested. It’s what makes us human. Technology is in our nature. Through our tools we give our… Nicholas Carr
