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The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
Bruce Sterling
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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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Austin
Texas
Michael Bruce Sterling
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But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.
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Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
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Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
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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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