We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

He lived in Belgrade with Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tešanović for several years. Flurb 6 Speech at the Austin Game Developers Conference. In the speech where he offered "spime" he noted that the term "blobject" with which he is sometimes credited was passed on to him by industrial designer Karim Rashid.

This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.