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It's counterproductive to blither on about the future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
Bruce Sterling
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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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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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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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The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.
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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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The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
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