John Twelve Hawks

“You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.”

“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.”

“Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.”

“If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.”

“Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.”

“Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.”