This year I decided to do something a little different with my gift guide. Rather than try for a steampunk theme, I decided to apply a steampunk philosophy. I thought back over the things that I purchased that have pleased me greatly. Often they were purchases that I agonized over. Purchases where I stretched and bought something I really couldn't afford or where I bought the most expensive version...
(left) Burdick Mall, Kalamazoo, MI, designed by Victor Gruen, 1959; (right) Dixie Square Mall, Harvey, IL, 2009, photo by Jon Revelle In anticipation of the consumerist high holy day of Black Friday, I was delighted to read former BB guestblogger Mark Dery's insightful essay in Change Observer about the birth, and death, and rebirth, of the shopping mall. Mark begins with the father of mall architecture,...
There are reports of a new worm that targets jailbroken iPhones and behaves like a botnet. It targets people in the Netherlands who use their iPhones for online banking with the Dutch bank ING, and the worm affects devices with SSH installed. (via Bruce Sterling)...
There are reports of a new worm that targets jailbroken iPhones and behaves like a botnet. It targets people in the Netherlands who use their iPhones for online banking with the Dutch bank ING, and the worm affects devices with SSH installed. (via Bruce Sterling)...
I ran across a few old files today. Here’s an intrerview I did with Bruce Sterling in 1992. (Originally appeared in bOING-bOING #9) Bruce Sterling’s unparalleled reputation as a writer of bleeding edge science fiction and as a spokesman for the cyberpunk literary flare is well known, but recently he’s been [...]
A slow-moving, cold-blooded goat once lived on the island of Majorca. "They also saved energy by having a brain half the size of hoofed mammals its own size, and its eyes were only a third of the size." (Via Bruce Sterling)...
The full line-up of the icon minds talks, by the likes of Ronan Bouroullec, Farshid Moussavi, Bruce Sterling and Dunne & Raby, can now be viewed online. Watch Farshid Moussavi, Charles Jencks and Marjan Colletti discuss the return of ornament; Dunne & Raby and Bruce Sterling talk about design fiction; Joseph Grima and Julien de Smedt on the pressures of running a young and successful architecture...
First off, anyone reading this going to Philcon? Second off, I'm on a panel at Philcon about aliens. What do you, o great lj overmind, think are the "most plausible" aliens in SF (as in hard SF)? Or, failing most "plausible," how about... most interesting? I'd like to nominate: The Swarm in "Swarm" by Bruce Sterling The insectoid creatures in "Love Is the Plan - The...
Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I've Got a Secret in 1965 when he was 17 years old. He made a computer that plays music, at the end of the video they show the computer - via Bruce Sterling. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Retro | Digg this!
What comes after Web 2.0? For David Orban, the next phase is the Internet of Things: a digital lattice of interconnected objects — cars, handbags, sneakers, thermoses. Orban calls these objects spimes. Coined by sci-fi god Bruce Sterling, the term denotes a networked thingy that’s aware of its orientation in space and time. Your cellphone [...]
"What is valuable is the presence of other writers of your same generation who are doing the same sort of thing you are, and writing the kind of stories that you aspire to write. When “Hardfought” by Greg Bear or “Hive” by Bruce Sterling or “My Brother's Keeper” by Pat Cadigan, or “Black Air” by Kim Stanley Robinson first appeared, they all sent...
Terry Bisson has an interview with utopian science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson - Galileo's dream: A Q&A With Kim Stanley Robinson (via Bruce Sterling - The Utopian Kim Stanley Robinson ). TB: My favorite of that series is Pacific Edge, the utopia of the series. What’s yours? Are there any particular problems in writing a utopia? KSR: My favorite is The Gold Coast, for personal reasons,...
We are excited to reveal the next batch of confirmed programming for the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival (titles linked to PanelPicker proposals after the jump). Today's announcement adds to the wealth of innovative, thought-provoking content that makes March in Austin such an inspirational experience. With over 2300 proposals submitted to the SXSW PanelPicker for 2010, the selection process has been...
I have no rational explanation, yet for some reason I find the very concept of a manifesto facinating and unavoidable. I even wrote my own once . RSS Atom A Cypherpunk's Manifesto Posted Fri 05 Dec 2008 08:16:35 AM NZDT by Eric Hughes First Things First Posted Fri 05 Dec 2008 08:16:35 AM NZDT by Ken Garland and Unknown Why The Future Doesn't Need Us Posted Fri 05 Dec 2008 08:16:35 AM NZDT by Bill Joy...
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