About Nick Harkaway: Nick Harkaway is a novelist and commentator. He is the author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World.
He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.
He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.
He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.
Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.
To recap: it is possible to put decent information into a Government Machine, have ordinary, good people running the thing, and a reasonable system in place, and still get utter idiocy out of the dispenser?" "More than possible. Likely.
It’s not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it’s that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
