“I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.”
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The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.
I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.