The best way to predict the future is to create it.
"I work very slowly. It's a process of building up layers and adjusting until it feels right."
Hardware is the skeleton of innovation, software is its nervous system, but human need is its beating heart.
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.