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It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
Bruce Sterling
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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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Science Fiction Writer
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Michael Bruce Sterling
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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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One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
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Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.
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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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