Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me.

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable.

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

I love William Gibson.

With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin's that.

How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

I see a bright future for the future of computing and its implications for games.

Who knows what form storytelling will take in the future?

When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.