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David Gerrold
American
Writer
Born:
Jan 24
,
1944
First
Future
Great
Internet
Science
You
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
David Gerrold
Life
Death
You
Grateful
Life Is Hard
Be Grateful
Face
Worms
Eat
Dirt
Throw
Die
Order
Happens
Then
Your
Hard
In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.
David Gerrold
Technology
Phones
People
World
Amazing
Internet
Moon
Men
Beginning
Cell Phones
Kinds
Colour
Had
Primitive
Most
Industry
Been
End
Very
Cell
Orbit
Where
To The Moon
Century
Agricultural
Medical
Medical Technology
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
David Gerrold
Great
Library
Culture
Result
Past
Heritage
Guardians
Caring
Nurtured
Tending
Selecting
Maintained
Cultural
In The Past
Works
When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are in relation to them.
David Gerrold
Sky
Else
Relation
Out
Look
Also
Up
Wonder
Anyone
Anyone Else
Them
Asking
Who
Night
Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.
David Gerrold
Trek
Else
Besides
About
Only
Writers
Talk
Were
Anybody
Different
Want
Anything
Anything Else
Them
Episodes
Series
Star
Star Trek
Ever
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.
David Gerrold
Good
Me
You
Science
Writing
Arrogant
Think
Enough
Trek
Approach
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Say
Bit
TV
Thousands
TV Show
Know
Make
Science Fiction
Dollars
Very
Expense
Screen
Fiction
Little
Justify
Little Bit
Really
Episode
Show
Star
Star Trek
Now
Millions
Millions Of Dollars
Need
'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them.
David Gerrold
Best
Me
Science
Sky
Else
Relation
Out
Look
Also
Science Fiction
Always
Been
Question
Lot
Up
Very
Wonder
Essential
Fiction
Anyone
Anyone Else
Stories
Them
Asking
Who
Night
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.
David Gerrold
Great
Science
Television
Eye
See
Excuse
Because
Science Fiction
Lots
Effects
Candy
Fiction
Frustrated
Movies
Hollywood
Special
Special Effects
If you were a kid in 1955, you would pick up a copy of 'Popular Science' and it would say, 'This is the kind of car you're going to be driving in five years or in 20 years you'll be able to take a jet plane from New York to London in four hours,' or something like that. We actually got used to the idea that the future's going to be different.
David Gerrold
Future
You
Science
Car
Jet
Say
Kid
Kind
Would
Be Different
Able
London
Something
Take
Pick
Driving
Idea
New
Like
Hours
Got
Were
Years
Up
Five
York
Going
New York
Different
Plane
Used
Popular
Actually
Four
Copy
I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.
David Gerrold
Future
Car
Internet
Think
Flying
Tablets
Take
Between
Got
Built
Choice
Right
Just as movies, radio, and television evolved into new forms over time, the ebook will also become something more than just a way to read books. It will become its own specific and unique way of creating and sharing experience.
David Gerrold
Time
Experience
Will
Become
Own
Books
Way
Television
Evolved
Something
More
Sharing
Over
New
Also
Read
New Forms
Than
Just
Forms
Movies
Creating
Radio
Unique
Specific
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