Coming real soon: AI-based authorware. Anyone will be able to become an author, generating many "good enough" books every day. Contrived and derivative plots. Who cares? As long as they please hoi polloi, who needs professional authors?

Brain waves. That will prevent someone from loading your car on a truck and driving it away.

Why don't supermarkets frisk everyone leaving the store, to catch possible shoplifters? I would rather risk the occasional terrorist attack than surrender my liberties in an impossible quest for perfect safety.

That particular job sounds especially hellish.

East Asian, and particularly South Korean, competitors have faster product cycle times based on Japanese kaizen (incessant incremental improvement). Give Apple's long product cycles and limited number of models, the only way the company can compete is by making quantum leaps in technology. All it takes is one missed cycle to become uncompetitive. Ask Motorola and Blackberry.

Domestic and foreign intelligence agencies know this already.

Google is going to confuse the NSA?

Snobs.

To aliens from another planet, we humans might appear to be extremophiles. At least we'd be worthy of study. There's that.

It only takes 2 hours to copy a $2.99 book. Such a deal.

How dare humans protect themselves? That's racist.

Though spoken Chinese dialects are not mutually intelligible, their scripts are, so written Chinese is common to China.

Take it back? The U.S. Government developed the Internet, and it was paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Schneier may be a computer security expert, but he is no historian.

You remember NASA, don't you? That's the group who went to the moon over 40 years ago, but now has to ask the Russians to take a crap in space.

Still think it was a good idea for Congress to cancel the Superconducting Supercollider?