Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterlingis an American science fiction author known for his novels and work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 April 1954
CountryUnited States of America
thinking needs trends
David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
latin dark age
Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
reign saws corny
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
madness distraction
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
people belief smooth
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
mean
Open-source is a means of production.
mean way imagine
When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.
facts want strategy
Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.
blur concerned fell fields instantly longer machines naturally realized texts type until
It wasn't until I assembled these texts that I realized that they fell naturally into thematic sections. They're concerned with different fields of study, but you no longer have to be a polymath to blur those. You can type in a keyword and gigantic, world-spanning machines will instantly blur them for you.
brilliant computer computers damage realize screen staring until
In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.
dope government worry
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.
fire worry gorillas
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
believe information want
Information wants to be free. Believe it.
unwritten
The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.