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"I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."
"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."
"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."
"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."
"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."
"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."
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"People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job."
"Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music."
"The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses."
"I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote."
"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."
"If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next."
"I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere."
"War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it."
"Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin."
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