When you're a child - and my understanding of it is very basic - but when you're a very young child, the stimuli around you prompt your brain to form synapses. Once they're there, they're there, but if they don't… — 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 older brother is both authority and peer, friend and bitter enemy, partner and rival, and will play these contradictory roles to varying degrees throughout your life. At this point the rivalry is most prominent, owing to… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share
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 heads off, get the chatter to stop and cease having to pay bills, but we persist in the minds of those who knew and loved us. We continue to appear to them, unbidden, in myriad ways.… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share
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 meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there. — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share
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 interface with and combine ourselves with machines and machinery and electronics - those will all be opt-in moments. Would you choose to have some sort of brain implant? Would you choose to have Google Glasses installed… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share
