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.

Quote by William Gibson

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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough...

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough...

The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with...

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with...

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by...

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by...

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software,...

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software,...

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human...

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human...

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software,...

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software,...

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this...

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this...

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits,...

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits,...

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we...

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we...

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years...

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often...

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often...

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and...

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and...