Change Agent Quotes

“When privacy is criminalized,
only criminals will have privacy.”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“The inevitable poor walked past robotic construction equipment, selling fruit or begging for alms. The modern world no longer needed manual labor—at least not labor anyone was willing to pay for.”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“I think that’s what the Huli jing discovered—not only how to edit DNA, but how to turn genes on and off on demand, not simply write them into the chain. After all, computer code doesn’t do anything unless you execute it.”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“When privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“Synthetic biology was the transistor of the twenty-first century. Yet political realities in America made it increasingly unfeasible for entrepreneurs there to tinker with the building blocks of life. Every cluster of human cells was viewed as a baby in America. A quarter of the population wasn’t vaccinated. A majority of Americans didn’t believe in evolution. Social-media-powered opinions carried more influence than peer-reviewed scientific research.”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“A hundred stories each and draped in vines, the dozen towers resembled overgrown postapocalyptic ruins—except for their glittering organometallic lights. Acre for acre, the towers produced ten times the food of a traditional farm on just a fraction of the water. Zero pesticides. Almost entirely automated.”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“You know what they say: when privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“Synthetic biology was the transistor of the twenty-first century. Yet political realities in America made it increasingly unfeasible for entrepreneurs there to tinker with the building blocks of life. Every cluster of human cells was viewed as a baby in America. A quarter of the population wasn’t vaccinated. A majority of Americans didn’t believe in evolution. Social-media-powered opinions carried more influence than peer-reviewed scientific research. In this virulently anti-science atmosphere, synbio research was hounded offshore before it had really begun. Activists crowed over their victory.”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“They sell the fact that you’re susceptible to technical animism.”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent

“when privacy is criminalized, only criminals will have privacy.” Durand”
― Daniel Suarez, Change Agent