Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 123

Ginsberg and Burroughs

*Trying to get published by Ace Books. The art of poetry (…) INTERVIEWER When did you come onto Burroughs’s work? GINSBERG Let’s see … Well,...

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Augmented Reality versus climate crisis

*EdgyBees and QuakeTech. AR in the blazing fields of California (…) The contextual maps currently in use by teams in Alameda and Menlo Park update...

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Carla Gannis in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Saskatchewan, Santa Fe, Hull and Ljubljana

*Is it even possible to have art shows in such widely separated venues all at once? Looks like the death of globalization has been oversold....

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Dead Media Beat: online dead populations

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08... What happens to your online accounts when you die? The digital entropy of death By John Leyden 17 Aug 2018 at 10:25 What happens...

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With hooks embedded in his chest muscles, his face seemed transcendent

*From V. Vale, because who else. Nassim Taleb has said that most major changes in the history of world culture were brought about by just...

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Authors excel at complaining about their harsh lot

*So you might want to join the Authors Guild, if you’re an author. I tend to err on the side of the “information wants to...

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Turinese mummy advances science

*That is a really, really old mummy. That’s some guy from the early Bronze Age. Not only that, but it seems to be some pretty...

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Meanwhile, here in Seattle

JOINT PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2018 AIR QUALITY ALERT FOR PUGET SOUND REGION DUE TO WILDFIRE SMOKE This is an air...

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Indian face recognition

*They can claim to be a step ahead of Tokyo. Face Recognition Mass Surveillance in India Chennai’s T. Nagar, arguably India’s biggest shopping district by...

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The Asilomar AI Principles

*We like a statement of principles here on the blog. https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/ Artificial intelligence has already provided beneficial tools that are used every day by people...

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