Maybe we could get a more interesting future by electing science fiction writers. Stross-Doctorow vs. Gibson-Sterling would make for some fun campaigning.

If the question is who would believe ALL of it, the answer is: people who are very credulous, and people whose prejudices are catered to by these stories.

It is very easy to forget that just because some stories of a certain kind are true, not all of them are true.

The privatization of the police and military is right out of the pages of Snow Crash.