A decade or two ago we imagined a neural interface, but it was science fiction. But now these things are pretty close to being realized in the laboratory.

Machines systematically taking over what humans do is not a healthy thing. There are certainly many areas of danger. It's important to do this, start talking about it, create a dialogue, and try to push things and, so we end up at a place that's reasonably healthy.

The goal of these systems is to be completely seamless and natural, like your own limb. If the amputee has to think about it and struggle, it won't work. They'll throw it away.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.