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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
George Dyson, one of my all-time-favorite science writers, has written a short science fiction story for Edge. Bruce Sterling describes it thusly: "Amazingly, this piece reads almost exactly like I would have imagined it. Try to imagine Hugo Gernsback writing "Ralph 124C41+" only Hugo used to live in a treehouse, is a comprehensive scholar of extinct technologies, and has an IQ high enough to boil...
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Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Many thanks for those who voted in the recent Locus Awards poll. We not only had four of the top ten short story collections — The Winds of Marble Arch (Connie Willis); The Jack Vance Treasury (Jack Vance) New Amsterdam (Elizabeth Bear); Ascendancies (Bruce Sterling) — SubPress was voted second place in the Best Publisher/Imprint [...]
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Adaptive Path (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
My latest essay, Mobile Carriers, Will You Be Our Heroes? was inspired by a conversation with one of my favorite thought leaders, Bruce Sterling, who will be speaking at this year’s UX Week in San Francisco. I asked Bruce his thoughts on the future of mobile carriers and his response was surprising. He expressed empathy [...]
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The Waving Cat (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Through Oriol Miralbell’s blog I just stumbled over this conference talk. Maybe the headline sounded familiar to you? Right, it’s Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management, here filmed at LIFT ‘06. As always it’s a great talk. Other super interesting speakers include Hugh Macleod, Bruce Sterling, Jan Chipchase and Stowe Boyd. For more cool videos check [...]
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Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Jeff Vail is busy finishing his law degree but he is still finding time to write the occasional blog post - one of the latest installments looks at distributed manufacturing using fabbers / 3-d printers (one of Bruce Sterling's favourite subjects, as it is one of the foundations of the "internet of things") - in particular using low cost, readily available materials like mud - Rhizome Platform Design...
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Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Bruce Sterling's latest edition of "Spime Watch" (which observes the genesis of the "internet of things") has turned up this experimental web service called Pachube . That reminds me - I wonder what happened to that spime with antlers ? Pachube (pronounced "patch bay") is a web service available at http://www.pachube.com that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices...
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Paperback Writer (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Ten Things for the SF/F Lovers And I thought I hated SF writing workshops -- A Workshop Lexicon by Bruce Sterling. Because if they behaved, they'd be boring -- Lee Masterson's article Aliens and Faeries: Non-Human Characters Acting Badly If Hawking won't lend you his copy -- Free to read online from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics -- Martin V. Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and...
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pasta and vinegar (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
In his talk at Frontiers of Interaction in Torino, Italy last week, Bruce Sterling dealt with the failure of technology and why we don’t have jetpacks or flying cars: “to say a word is not the same as engineer a thing (…) we/people think it’s a smooth and practical process but it’s not (…) they don’t [...]
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core77.com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Bruce Sterling has a starring role in the half-hour Turinese science fiction movie, "Afterville." He plays a Nobel-Prize-winning UFO prophet, speaks Italian and even got himself artificially aged (see photo above). ...
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Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Bruce Sterling on the recent midwest floods. In order to imagine food prices going down, you have to hypothesize weather problems receding and fuel prices lower. And if ending a war is supposed to patch that, you have to imagine that starvation and a climate crisis doesn’t cause other military emergencies elsewhere. Is that plausible?
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Autopia (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
http://frontiers.dolmedia.tv/ Link: Frontiers of Interaction IV. (((With Bruce Sterling, Adam Greenfield, Nicolas Nova and Yahoo scientist Elizabeth Churchill all geeking-out in high Italian form. Includes a host of ambitious Italian tech developers. "Can I leave the room now, professor? My...
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core77.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Yesterday Bruce Sterling was one of the international speakers at the Frontiers of Interaction IV conference in Turin, Italy. In his talk "Science Fiction to Reality" ( video here ), Bruce Sterling spoke about the difference between Italian and American cultural practice in dealing with futurism and future issues, introduces us to Bruno Argento ("the Italian equivalent of Bruce Sterling"), and shares...
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Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Today I attended the Frontiers of Interaction IV conference in Turin, Italy, which — with some kind input from Bruce Sterling — has now reached quite an international level. Speakers today were Jeffrey Schnapp (Stanford Humanities Lab), Ashley Benigno (Global 3G Handset and Application Group at Hutchison Whampoa Limited), Nicolas Nova (LIFT conference), Bruno Giussani (TED - via video), David Orban...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Bruce Sterling (11/20/2001): You know what I want? I don't want a National ID Card. I want a Global Coalition Visa. Like it or not, we've got a huge global diaspora now. It is a fact of life. Nations with stupid and corrupt politics have seen their clever people brain- drained away, to places where the cops don't shake you down twice a day. And jet-setters go everywhere. And properly so. If you're...
