Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 126

Dead Media Beat: “Disturbances #16: Digital Dust”

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust by Jay Owens Dust would seem to be the most material of things, sometimes the most ultimately material: it’s...

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Those who worship the Muses end up in the museum

*In this case, a Spice Girls museum. Spice up your life

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Exodus: the climate migration crisis

Could be you and yours The water comes slowly at first. The skies open up in the afternoon now. People start avoiding certain streets at...

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Wired reporter volunteers to eat insect foods

*Most of ’em are rather heavily processed. If you weren’t clued in about their origins, you wouldn’t know. Aaron Tilley (…) So for two weeks,...

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The “Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018”

*Killer drones are for everybody. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-c... S. 2836 To assist the Department of Homeland Security in preventing emerging threats from unmanned aircraft and vehicles, and...

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The Five Tenets of Viktor Orban

*We like a manifesto here on the ol’ blog. In this case, a manifesto of religious ethnonationalism from Hungary. http://www.kormany.hu/en/the-prime-mi... (…) Central European tenets When...

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RE/Search t-shirts

*If Mark Pauline has gallery representation, then I guess Vale can do some apparel. We just DID something I wish we’d done decades ago—like, 1980!...

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The Adafruit Augmented Reality App

*Okey-dokey.

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The Architecture of Evil: Dystopian Megacorps in Speculative Fiction Films

*Nice one with the architecture-fiction there. Fun to think that the FBI headquarters is the spiritual ancestor of all evil-megacorporate buildings. It’s all about the...

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Jan Chipchase has no idea what design anthropology is

I would listen to him anyway, however

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