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"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."
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"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."
"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."
"Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely."
"What will happen if we go to 0 day?...Everything has been wipe out from the technology?"
"As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its organizational, bureaucratic and governmental abuse."
"It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car."
"In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future."
"Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously."
"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
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"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."
"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture."
"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."
"I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."
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