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Believe me there are few things deader or more obsolescent than a science fiction novel that predicts the future when the future has passed it by.

— 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)

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

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.

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