Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 32

Meanwhile, in Australia the Fair

*Or rather, the formerly fair. People live on the baked, flaming soil, or they try to; their herds and crops are perishing from climate crisis...

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2019’s worst tech ideas

*Some of those weren’t just “ideas,” more like major industries collapsing. Pretty good list, though, if you like wincing

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An invitation to go remember in Naples

Give it a try, and if it doesn’t work out, you can forget I told you about it The rabbit hole presents a unique residency...

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Russian National Cyberspace

*Well, people used to theorize about this “balkan-net” or “splinternet,” but now we’ve got working hardware. *The reason you want one of these is not...

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The Pinterest Algorithm

*I use a lot of Pinterest, and its algorithm is the most interesting thing about it. Feels like a telescope, almost. how to understand users...

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Meanwhile, in the Moscow rave scene

Whatever happens to musicians will happen to everybody

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Showtime: Garmi Song from “Street Dancer 3D”

*I don’t know if Nora Fatehi, who is Canadian by way of Morocco, is doing her own choreography on this item number, but this is...

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They Laughed and Called Him Names

…now they’re all dead.

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Design Fiction: The AD 2030 Last Minute Christmas Gift Guide

*Tim Maughan. Let’s be fair, it’s actually a science fiction text with a lot of design in it Buying Christmas gifts for you friends, family,...

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Dead Media Beat: Randy Guess, an inventor of the bulletin board system

*He was 74. A very typical cultural figure of the personal computer era. Like: I’ve got one, it’s personal, I’ll just do it myself. And...

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