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The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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Blogger
Futurist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Austin
Texas
Michael Bruce Sterling
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Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
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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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People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
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I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.
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A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs
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The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
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We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
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The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
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Every passing year brings us more past futures.
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Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
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The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
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War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize world peace even when we get it.
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