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I'm an optimist. I think our social contracts are stronger than our technology. They're the strongest bonds we have. We don't aim telescopes through each others' windows, because only creeps do that.

But we need to reclaim the right to record our own lives as they proceed. We need to reverse dec…

[...] Perhaps the point is to titillate us with
the delicious irony of celebrating copyright infringement while
simultaneously taking the view that even the NO
PHOTOGRAPHY sign is a form of property, not to be reproduced
without the permission that can never be had.

Science fiction is the literature of the present, and the present is the only era that we can hope to understand, because it's the only era that lets us check our observations and predictions against reality.

[...] The thing is, when all you've got is monks, every book takes on
the character of a monkish Bible. Once you invent the printing
press, all the books that are better-suited to movable type migrate
into that new form. What's left behind are those items
that are best suited to the old product…

[...] Almost all of us could be making more money elsewhere (though we may dream of earning a stephenkingload of money, and of course, no one would play the lotto if there were no winners). The primary incentive for writing has to be artistic satisfaction, egoboo, and a desire for posterity. Ebooks…