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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.

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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

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My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone

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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

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In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.

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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called war too. And there will still be no conventional war.

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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.

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I wouldn't describe that position as parasitic. I'd describe that experience as edifying. I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

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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.

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It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.

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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

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A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.

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I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

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We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that 911 If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

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It wasn't until I assembled these texts that I realized that they fell naturally into thematic sections. They're concerned with different fields of study, but you no longer have to be a polymath to blur those. You can type in a keyword and gigantic, world-spanning machines will instantly blur them for you.

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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.

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A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

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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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I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

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Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

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I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

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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.

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One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

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