Damien Broderick Quotes

Australia, Author
April 22, 1944

Damien Francis Broderick is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 70 books.His science fiction novel The Dreaming Dragons (1980) introduced the trope of the generation time machine, his The Judas Mandala (1982) contains the first appearance of the term "virtual reality" in science fiction, and his 1997 popular science book The Spike was the first to investigate the technological singularity in detail.

Also known as Editor, Science Writer

If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.

Damien Broderick
- God
- Interesting
- Sense
“Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.”

Damien Broderick
- Feel
- Screwed
- Ectoplasm