The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That’s how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
I’ve read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It’s a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you – people I can’t name – you feel you’ve hit a nerve. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn’t topple. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
I think technology is spreading, and I think one’s experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class – not so much to country. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
We need to take a leaf out of nature’s book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash. Daniel Suarez Read Quote
