The Last Firewall Quotes

“Shirky pointed out that Americans watched a hundred million hours of television advertising every single weekend. In other words, we could have been creating another Wikipedia-sized project every week. But we didn’t, because most people don’t do that. They don’t spend time creating or learning. They passively consume.”
― William Hertling, The Last Firewall

“There’s an old saying that locks don’t stop thieves, they just keep honest people honest.”
― William Hertling, The Last Firewall

“Artificial intelligences, or AI, took the form of robots and disembodied consciousnesses in the net. First created about ten years ago, they’d taken over most jobs. But the AI had grown the economy until income taxes had been first eliminated and then reversed: everyone received a basic guaranteed income, or stipend, now.”
― William Hertling, The Last Firewall

“Everyone who wanted to stay sane found some way to define themselves now that the artificial intelligences, or AI, had taken all the jobs.”
― William Hertling, The Last Firewall

“People don’t do things for big ideas. They do it for personal reasons, then justify their actions with moral arguments.”
― William Hertling, The Last Firewall