Zitat des Tages von Rudy Rucker:
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
