Ethics Change With Technology.

Psi And/or Magical Powers, If Real, Are Nearly Useless.

Once Every Hundred Years, The Los Angeles Smog Rolls Away For A Single Night, Leaving The Air As Clean As Interstellar Space. That Way The Gods Can See If Los Angeles Is Still There. If It Is, They Roll The Smog Back So They Won't Have To Look At It.

I Do Suspect That Privacy Was A Passing Fad.

For Each Human Being There Is An Optimum Ratio Between Change And Stasis. Too Little Change, He Grows Bored. Too Little Stability, He Panics And Loses His Ability To Adapt. One Who Marries Six Times In Ten Years Won't Change Jobs. One Who Moves Often To Serve His Company Will Maintain A Stable Marriage. A Woman Chained To One Home And Family May Redecorate Frantically Or Take A Lover Or Go To Many Costume Parties.

Bruce Sterling Is One Terrific Writer And He's Relatively New, But I Don't Know How Long He's Been Doing It; He Probably Doesn't Need The Publicity Anymore!