"Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software." ― Greg Egan Topic(s): Computers More From Greg Egan "Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I’ve been led astray like that myself at times." More In Computers "Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids."― Taylor Kitsch "You couldn’t have fed the ’50s into a computer and come out with the ’60s."― Paul Kantner "To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man."― Marcel Marceau