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Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
Bruce Sterling
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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
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Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - Ubiquity G- ???
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Every passing year brings us more past futures.
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