We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fascinating was a description, from one of the scientists who helped… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“Your relationship with your brother will be, in many ways, the most complex and bewildering of all the interpersonal connections you will form. An… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“There will likely be one important difference between corporeal suicide and digital suicide. Right now, one cannot destroy oneself utterly. We can blow our… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“...a flight to Philly, then took the train west through hills and valleys where people sat mourning the loss of steel and wondering what… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the opportunity to… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
