Science fiction's greatest job and greatest trick has been to influence the future,

to inspire futures or to warn people about futures.

Some of the fiction I write is activists,

which doesn't mean that it's not also driven by this aesthetic

desire to make the best story I can.

The way the law stands now is if you have a product that has a copyrighted work inside of it,

anything with software, ceases to be your property.

It becomes something that you are a tenant of.

We are one RFID sensor away from dishwashers

that reject third party dishes.

We are one machine vision system away from a toaster that

rejects unauthorized bread. You should be able to always tell your computer what

to do. Not anyone else. Not the police, not the government, not a corporation.

When you start writing, it's almost always because you're inspired.

But you're not going to be fired most of the time.

Now, what's the realistic plan?

If you can't write every day at the number of words

that you've been planning to write,

write fewer words and still write every day. You're going to.