Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 167

Share Festival 2018 “FR@NKENSTEIN”, jurors announced

*Got some Frankenstein tech-art gadgets? We need those for Piemonte Share Festival 2018, “Fr@nkenstein.” *And look at those star jurors — people who really know...

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Meanwhile, in Brexitania

*The deglobalized condition of the UK. It’s so different than anybody ever expected. *For a state to be in “vassal status,” you have to assume...

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Robert Louis Stevenson “An Apology for Idlers”

*Stevenson does all kinds of idle stuff with the footnotes here, which is almost an Oulipo stunt. A strange guy, Stevenson. He’s so calm and...

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It’s tech-lash season, part fourteen (starring Ted Chiang)

*You don’t see the guy do a lot of opinion writing, and this is quite elegant. It always pleases me when a trippy, visionary science...

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Slacking off

*This reads in a very Bob Black fashion. I wonder if this guy has ever read Bob Black’s ABOLITION OF WORK. “Productivity Is Dangerous” (…)...

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It’s tech-lash season, part thirteen

https://www.change.org/p/elected-offi... To Elected Officials and Community Leaders of Amazon HQ2 Finalist Cities: We, the undersigned, represent a broad range of urbanists, urban economists, policymakers, and...

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The mysterious free watch from no one and nowhere

*That’s a good story. Even if there’s no resolution. http://www.jennyodell.com/museumofcap...

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It’s tech-lash season, part twelve

*Just look at those Stacks scramble. Remember when you couldn’t regulate “The Internet” ’cause it was technically impossible? Boy, those were the days, eh? SAN...

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It’s tech-lash season, part eleven

*Maybe there’s some money in all this trouble somewhere. I mean, besides the money already belonging to Google Apple Facebook Amazon Microsoft Baidu Alibaba Tencent....

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Very ancient life on Earth

*We’re getting closer to a “panspermia” idea of galactic microbes being present when the solar system coalesced. If that were the case, then the Earth...

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