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It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

— Bruce Sterling

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When the People march in one direction, it only hurts to ask awkward questions.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Agriculture is the oldest and most vicious of humanity’s bio-technologies.

Islands in the Net (1988)

She’d read somewhere once that 90 percent of the world’s havoc was committed by men between fifteen and twenty-five.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Interstitialism is very postmodern, in that it calls old definitions into question without bothering to invent plausible new ones.

I’ll grant you good intentions, but intentions don’t count for much. Corruption—that’s what counts.

Islands in the Net (1988)

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