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
mean mutation painful
I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.
The future is a process, not a destination.
victory being-human humans
There's no victory-condition for being human.
It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
arrogant spirit geek
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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.
past
Every passing year brings us more past futures.
Find a client and get a job.
urban host architect
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.
mean
Open-source is a means of production.
latin dark age
Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
buildings few lack large topics
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
technology thinking years
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.