Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. Read full biography of Richard Powers →
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.
Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.
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Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.