"The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it." ― William Gibson Topic(s): Technology More From William Gibson "It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information." "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts." "Time moves in one direction, memory in another." More In Technology "Since fantasy isn’t about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it’s changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"― Terri Windling "We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."― Ralph Merkle "People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters."― Daniel Yergin