THE DISCOVER INTERVIEW DAVID BRIN

摘要

David Brin works out of his home office in San Diego County, but he spends much of his day in invisible worlds—ones hidden from us because we can't perceive them or because they don't even exist yet. For the past three decades, the Hugo Award-winning author has been mapping out his vision of the future in dozens of works, both non-fiction and sci-fi. His 1998 book, The Transparent Society, explores how technological innovations force us to choose between privacy and security, foreshadowing the era of YouTube and ubiquitous surveillance cameras. His 1990 novel, Earth, anticipates so many of today's trends—from the World Wide Web to global warming—that there is a Web site devoted entirely to its prognostications.