Social worries…
He is also a person worried about social issues in the world. He always insists
on the importance of the separation that seems to tear the world apart nowadays.
He is also very well informed about the wars that are going on in the world.
I will offer you his answer to a question related to this.
Question:
Recent wars in Somalia and elsewhere--are they not, in some sense, cyperpunk
wars, with their strange mix of raw savagery and technology, which involves
using satellites and high-tech helicopters and constant media reportage and
so on?
With that in mind, what would you say is the positive side of the technologies
you exploit in your first books?
Answer: These are wars filtered through telepresence; video wars, if you will. Net wars. If the "postmodern sublime" is characterized by the simultaneous apprehension of ecstasy and dread, I think we're most likely to apprehend it on CNN. The up side of this lies in ubiquitous personal computation and the death of geography. The end of nation-states. The end of borders. I eagerly await intelligent simultaneous online translation, which will be Babel-in-reverse.
If you would like to read the entire interview (one of the few that you can find in the net)… Sadly most of the links are broken when you study this author, which is particularly frustrating. However, this is a good example if you're looking for some info right from his mind…