150 Quotes by Annalee Newitz

Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.

You've probably heard the stories about how io9 got its name. And maybe you know that io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders and I were inspired by Kathy Keeton, whose groundbreaking magazine 'Omni' combined coverage of real science with science fiction. But what you probably don't know is how unlikely it was that io9 ever succeeded at all.

Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.

The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.

When it came to intellectual property, justice was simple and clear.

I want to leave a better timeline behind, not just an open timeline but one where people who are not men can control the means of reproduction.

But now we know there has been no one great disaster – only the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property.

I am sorry you have to live in the time of terraforming, and not in the spring that follows.

Bots, who cost money, required a period of indenture to make their manufacture worthwhile. No such incentive was required for humans to make other humans.