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Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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Austin
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Michael Bruce Sterling
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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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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
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It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
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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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If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
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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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Story-tellers should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.
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Tomorrow composts today.
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The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
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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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The future is a process, not a destination.
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Find a client and get a job.
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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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You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
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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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One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
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Every passing year brings us more past futures.
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