Latest Daniel Suarez Quotes from Interviews

• A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.

  Daniel Suarez

  Powerful, Data, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.

  Daniel Suarez

  Phones, Giving, Batteries

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.

  Daniel Suarez

  Kids, Opportunity, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.

  Daniel Suarez

  Phones, Data, Movement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

  Daniel Suarez

  People, Different, Horizon

  Source: www.spiegel.de