The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. – Norman Spinrad
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. – Norman Spinrad
Ive always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. – Norman Spinrad
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And its not by design. The United States dominates because its the biggest market. – Norman Spinrad
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. – Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970