I Think I Exist, Therefore I Exist.

The Computer Has Evolved Into A Partner, A Tool, And An Environment--not Just In Science Fiction, But In The Public Consciousness As Well. Computers Are No Longer Malevolent Iron Brains That Manufacture Tyrannical And Oppressive Answers; They Are Not A Way To Think, They Are A Place From Which To Think. The Computer Is An Environment In Which Answers Can Be Sought, Created, Manipulated And Developed.

Star Trek' Is The Mcdonald's Of Science Fiction; It's Fast Food Storytelling. Every Problem Is Like Every Other Problem. They All Get Solved In An Hour. Nobody Ever Gets Hurt, And Nobody Needs To Care. You Give Up An Hour Of Your Time, And You Don't Really Have To Get Involved. It's All Plastic.

I Have A Very Simple Philosophy Of Life: Kindness. Ferocious, Unrelenting, Ruthless, Committed, Passionate, Kindness. Life Is Sacred Everywhere. We All Have Better Things To Do Than Beat Each Other Up. Arguing For The Exception Is To Invest It With Energy, It's To Negotiate The Loophole. The Commitment To Kindness Must Be Total.

Theres Two Tiers Of Science Fiction: The Mcdonalds Sci-fi Like Star Trek, Where They Have An Adventure And Solve It Before The Last Commercial, And There Are Books That Once Youve Read, You Never Look At The World The Same Way Again.

In The 20th Century, We Had A Century Where At The Beginning Of The Century, Most Of The World Was Agricultural And Industry Was Very Primitive. At The End Of That Century, We Had Men In Orbit, We Had Been To The Moon, We Had People With Cell Phones And Colour Televisions And The Internet And Amazing Medical Technology Of All Kinds.