Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 183

Spite housing

*Buildings motivated by resentment. *Sometimes, years after the feud fades, people who have nothing to do with the quarrel end up living in these houses,...

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The Madeira-Orkney axis

*That’s a strange little adventure. Something like it must happened thousands of times a day now… due to social networks of one kind or another,...

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Samit Basu on science fiction in India

*It’s swell how he does all this soft-shoeing about not wanting to recommend anybody and then recommends a whole bunch of interesting people. Where’s the...

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Dead Media Beat: CompuServe forums

*They still exist. Until the middle of next month. https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/... Before there was a World Wide Web, a sizable chunk of all meaningful conversation between...

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The Extinction Gong

Dear list, Crystelle Vu and I are pleased to present our new project, The Extinction Gong. //————————————————————————> The Extinction Gong is a ceremonial automaton for...

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Rick Falkvinge and his Bitcoin Cash manifesto

*We like a manifesto here on the blog, and here’s a Pirate Party ideologue who wants to destroy central banking through making other people rich....

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Asgardia the Space Kingdom

*They just launched and deployed in orbit today. Okey-dokey. https://asgardia.space/en/ FAQ (…) SPACE Why was Asgardia created? Asgardia was created with three top goals in...

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More highly-colorful graphics for the blog here.

*Back off, Pinterest, Tumblr.

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Not enough graphics in the blog lately.

*It’s been grayer than the Gray Lady in here. *Something must be done. Help us, Kit-Boy!

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How to think about technological change

*It seems that opinions differ. Who knew? Ordering the theories in Sussex and Vanderbilt How to think about technological change Researchers publish toolkit of theories...

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