February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
14 posts
3 tags
SOME FRINGE BELIEFS ABOUT FUTURE CHANGES
It’s surprising how little...
– Bruce Sterling
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from garbage.
– Bruce Sterling
(see also)
December 2011
21 posts
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Nature.
– Karl Schroeder
(with apologies to A.C. Clark, natch)
I would prefer a two-state solution. My basic premise is that human beings are...
– Alan Moore
I knew that cyberspace was exciting, but none of the people I knew who were...
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson
INTERVIEWER
When did you decide to write about the contemporary world?
...
– William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211
November 2011
2 posts
The cynic has a shorter to-do list than the optimist.
– Anne Herbert (via kk)
October 2011
4 posts
Most of the Kurzweil curves we have experienced are technologies based on...
– “Plateau of Progress” -kk
#occupywallstreet: To the reactionaries: →
occupywallstreet:
Let me spell this out for you.
If an anti-Semite thinks #OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a good idea, that doesn’t mean that we think anti-Semitism is a good idea. Endorsements don’t go both ways. The same is true when it comes to the support we have received from unions and politicians.
In the same way,…
September 2011
6 posts
August 2011
2 posts