Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 164

The John Perry Barlow collection in archive.org

*My goodness there’s a lot of weird, flaky, broke-the-mold stuff in there. He has exited meatspace

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Stack panic plus BAT panic

*To hear the menacing allegation that Google Apple Facebook Amazon Microsoft are in menacing collusion with Baudi Alibaba Tencent and the Chinese government…. Why, it’s...

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The term “open source” is now 20 years old

*That’s quite a while. I wonder how long that term of art will continue. Open Sourcerors celebrating around the world

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The woman who makes Big Tech tremble

*Never heard of her? Maybe you oughta.

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Geeta Dayal on early computer music at Bell Labs

From 2016, but it’s just so interesting (…) By 1956, a scientist in Poughkeepsie named Arthur Samuel had taught an IBM 701, a behemoth nicknamed...

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Americans dress like slobs because their phones are more interesting than their clothes

*That’s some interesting speculation there. Not sure I believe any of it — it sounds like the just-so stories people tell to explain motion in...

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Jacksonian Tianxia

*”Tianxia.” Sounds pretty swell. Maybe one should inquire among the minorities who have live under that umbrella of Heaven. *May you live in interesting times....

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Indian scientists who wrote science fiction

*Who knew? Not even Indians knew, to tell the truth about it (…) Meanwhile, down south in Karnataka, the first Kannada science fiction stories started...

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Opening the “Museum of the Future” in Dubai

*Oh my goodness.

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Augmented Reality: head-mounted displays for praying mantises

*That’s one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen out of Newsweek, who seem to have all kinds of internal ruckus and chaos this season....

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