SXSW - Bruce Sterling
It was very interesting.
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3/18/2006
SXSW - Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling, a Science Fiction writer famous for his cyberpunk work, gave this keynote speech at this years South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The recording has been bouncing around the popular tech blogs for the last few days. It's wide reaching in scope, to say the least, combining discussion of Web2.0 (a kind of revitalisation movement in web development and design) with general observations of the strange anomic alienation that is slowly enveloping American culture.
We're seeing just frantic collisions of fundamentalist delusion with objective reality. We're on a kind of slider bar between the unthinkable and the unimaginable now; between the grim meathook future and the bright green future.It's about fifty minutes long, and a very interesting listen. Bruce has a preacher's fire in his words; rightly so considering his audience are the people he is speaking about, not just to.
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It was very interesting.
We're in a new age, this is good insight into "the comming thing". It (ie reality!) plays into my hands rather than those of a Social Democrat so it's interesting you've posted it.
I didn't understand what he was talking about with objects in space. Google his shoes? WTF?
Preacher's fire. Yes, except it was more in the vein of explaining or answering a great question than of administering a dose of doctrine unbidden. And his grief, at last, was too obscure for me. Whatever it was that's got up him is nothing a listen to Bob Dylan's "the times they are a-changin'" shouldn't put right.
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We're in a new age, this is good insight into "the comming thing". It (ie reality!) plays into my hands rather than those of a Social Democrat so it's interesting you've posted it.
I didn't understand what he was talking about with objects in space. Google his shoes? WTF?
Preacher's fire. Yes, except it was more in the vein of explaining or answering a great question than of administering a dose of doctrine unbidden. And his grief, at last, was too obscure for me. Whatever it was that's got up him is nothing a listen to Bob Dylan's "the times they are a-changin'" shouldn't put right.
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