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When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.
Bruce Sterling
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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.
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The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.
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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
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The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
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