Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 147
May 2, 2018
Dead Media Beat: “We” created it, but “nobody” archives it
*Yes, it’s rotting. “Internet Archive,” ever talk to those guys? What a strange enterprise. *I can remember people telling me that if you tossed some...
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May 1, 2018
Whatever happens to music will happen to television
*What a trove of weird, dry industry jargon that is. And wow, that TV industry sure is in for some turmoil, especially if you’re a...
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Simone Giertz has a serious illness
*I just watched the video where she announces her forthcoming surgery. That’s quite a video. It doesn’t have any of her usual gadgets in it,...
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Tech-lash galore
THE WEEKEND ROUNDUP By Nathan Gardels, WorldPost editor in chief In a stunningly quick turnaround over the past couple of years, the one-time darlings of...
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April 30, 2018
Zapping civilian cars with microwave ray guns
*The street finds its own uses for things.
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Ibizans protesting tourism
*I can’t say I blame ’em. Not sure they’d want to go back to their status quo ante, though. Boy, were they poor. Ibiza can’t...
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Neanderthal seafarers
*Imagine their sea chanties. Stone Age boats, presumably not made of stone Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean By Andrew Lawler Apr....
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A totem pole 11,600 years old
*That’s twice as old as the Pyramids. *Imagine thousands of the things, visible from miles around. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/... In 1894, gold prospectors digging up a peat...
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The Davos for digital hucksters
*It would be hard to live the scammer life without good ol’ Facebook. Bloomberg By Zeke Faux (((is “Faux” a real name, one naturally wonders)))...
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April 29, 2018
Larry Harvey has died
*That’s a nice factual write-up, but it doesn’t capture the affect that Larry Harvey had. I didn’t realize he was an adopted child. Maybe that...
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