. . . the street finds its own uses for things. |
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. |
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human |
Cyberspace was a consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical space but actually was a computer-generated construct representing abstract data. |
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... |
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. |
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. |
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. |
He's probably doing a good job. I don't have anything against him. Just something happened. |
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. |
I feel the time is right for me to relinquish the reins. It has become increasingly obvious to me that we are meeting and surpassing all the goals we had in mind when we took the company public in 1993. |
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. |
I think what's actually happening is I'm just being more overt in terms of what I've always been doing, |
I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, "How do you know what the future is going to be like?" And I'd always say, "I don't." |
It just shows how one person can turn around and exceed his authority and make somebody else's life a living hell. |