"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 "When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."― Wietse Venema "The power of the computer is starting to spread."― Bill Budge "What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents."― Dale Dougherty