Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2009 - As has become our custom, the new year in the Inkwell begins with a visit from longtime Well member, Bruce Sterling. This will be Bruce's tenth overview of Things in ...
Peak Energy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bruce Sterling points to Alexis Madrigal's project to create a history of American renewable energy development - The Lost History of American Green Technology . You’ll soon be able to cruise around a map of green tech history in America and scroll through a timeline of the major events in the history of the industry. "Right now, I’m working on building an American Green Technology Historical Registry...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Bruce Sterling and company are doing their yearly "state of the world" ruminations over on The Well. They're covering an lot of ground (financial crisis first and all that), but this is the quote that got me... When you can't...
smays.com (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Every year on The Well, Bruce Sterling does an "overview of Things in General, the State of the World, Where We Have Been and Where We are Tending." I've cherry-picked a few thoughts from the latest installment:"I always knew the "War on Terror" bubble would go. It's gone. Nobody misses it. It got no burial. I knew it was gonna be replaced by another development that seemed much more burningly urgent...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Bruce Sterling's doing his annual "state of the world" public interview on the WELL's Inkwell.vue conference, and taking all comers, dropping science and bon mots. I could read this stuff all day. I'm a bohemian type, so I could scarcely be bothered to do anything "financially sound" in my entire adult life. Last year was the first year when I've felt genuinely sorry for responsible, well-to-do people....
InformedTrades (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
KeithShepard said: "Prediction is impossible, we all know that. What we don't know is that retrodiction is also impossible." - Bruce Sterling $$ ...
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Futurist and sf author Bruce Sterling’s annual State of the World discussions of The Well are always worth reading. This year he dialogues with Jon Lebkowsky, however others can join in. An excerpt. Cellphone banking is happening now among Third Worlders who never saw a bank in their lives — forgotten people who’d be spat upon by [...]
Autopia (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
*I do this every year. Yes, every year, despite the political implications, despite the terrible civilian toll! *Drop on by, we'll be taking on all comers. http://budurl.com/sterlingworld
Weblogsky (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
The annual State of the World conversation with Bruce Sterling, led by yours truly, is under way. You have to be a member of the WELL to post directly, but nonmembers can send comments and questions to inkwell /at/ well.com. Link
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
If you pick up a previously unknown (to you) book by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, you would expect it to be science fiction , right? Maybe of the cyber punk variety, but science fiction none the less.
Technology, Books and Other Neat St (Free subscription) | 20/12/2008
I always dreamed of owning a Whole Earth Catalog. Back on Jersey in the 70s and 80s they were the stuff of legend, only noted by reference. When I found I could subscribe to the Whole Earth Review, thanks to a Bruce Sterling column in one of the first news-stand Interzones, I signed on the dotted line quicker than anything - that email to a WELL address was one of my first ecommerce transactions. I...
Wonderland (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
Bruce Sterling spotted this lacy number (an "American Tablecloth") in a Turinese shop window. It's clearly a game, but which one? Brick Bat?
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Nice sentiment. Makes a great bumper sticker. I used to have one. But the reality? Not so much.SF author Bruce Sterling: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The...
New World Notes (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Way back in the early 90s when the Internet was still a subculture playground, cyberpunk futurists Bruce Sterling and Richard Kadrey conceived of a "Dead Media Project", which would archive all the media forms that went defunct as content became...
Blogroll (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
From P2P Foundation In his beautiful thoughtpiece announcing the end of his 10 year old Viridian Design movement, which is well worth reading in full for the other passages, such as the ones on glocal cosmopolitanism, Bruce Sterling has the following to say about a new relationship to material things. Bruce Sterling: “The sustainable is about time – [...]
