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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
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Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?
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Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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Every passing year brings us more past futures.
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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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