I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing...

I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's...

'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everythin...

I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've esta...

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention...

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dre...

The future has already arrived. It's just not...

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an America...

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about...

I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning t...

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist...

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate...