I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

William Gibson
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  1. To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

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  4. We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

  5. Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

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