| | Catching Up with Wired
- "(M)aking music is fundamentally a social phenomenon that actually creates a physical coupling between otherwise separate neurosystems." - Howard Rheingold (in the January 2003 issue of Wired Magazine)
- "You can't look at humanity separate from machines. We're so intertwined we're almost the same species, and the difference is getting smaller." - Sims creator Wil Wright (in the November 2002 issue of Wired Magazine)
- "We are now at a juncture that organic life has been moving toward for a long time. I think natural selection was likely to create an intelligent, self-conscious, morally rich species capable of reflective choice. And cultural evolution was very likely to get us where we are today, which is on the verge of global social organization, but still at a point where we have the possibility of blowing the whole thing up or ushering in an era of peace and order. Which of these routes we take as a species depends on the degree to which we're able to cast aside some of the egocentric moral biases that were built into us by biological evolution. The intimations of higher purpose are optional. - Robert Wright (in the December 2002 issue of Wired Magazine)
- "When engineering types speak highly of some science fiction writer, usually it's not because that person predicted the future. Rather, it's because he or she put together some disparate ideas into a coherent vision that could be used as a road map by the people who are actually deploying such a technology." - Neil Stephenson (in the September 2003 issue of Wired Magazine)
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