Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 174

Dead Media Beat: just some of the dead media of 2017

*He calls it “dead tech.” https://www.wired.com/story/2017-tech... ALL GOOD THINGS come to an end. This year, we watched as some of our favorite gadgets found a...

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Creative Applications and their highlights of 2017

*Rather a lot going on there. Hey there might be something creative that you could turn into a commercial app or something “As 2017 comes...

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Artnews critic reviews a year of art that appeared on screens

*That seems novel. And pretty interesting, too. Art that appeared in screens inside galleries, art museums et cetera “It’s estimated that the average American spends...

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The latest EDRigram, summary of the year

*Hoo boy. ====================================================================== EDRi-gram fortnightly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe EDRi-gram holiday special, 21 December 2017 Read online: https://edri.org/edri-gram/holiday-sp... ======================================================================= Contents ======================================================================= 1....

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Specific historic types of charlatan and mountebank

*Obviously we’ve still got ’em. On talk radio, on websites and social media, and in elective office, even. from John Rudlin, Commedia dell’Arte: An Actor’s...

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The IoT Podcast, episode 143, the dystopia episode

*Who can’t like THAT? Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel Episode 143: The IoT dystopia episode This week’s episode starts out with a pretty grim perspective,...

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Musica Globalista: a decline in Bollywood soundtracks

*Bollywood used to be a major channel for popular music in India. There must be a hundred other ways to get Indian music nowadays. The...

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Oldest things known on earth that were probably once alive

*They’ve sorta-kinda got the record for the time being, anyhow. They’re probably microbes and some new evidence has got ’em looking pretty fossilized

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Industry consolidation

Chip mergers in Fortune magazine

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Your golden passport to the Elysian Fields

*It doesn’t come free, but, umm, you can pay me later. Standard Orphic priest-poet rates. “I am the child of Ge and starry Ouranos; this...

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