Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 39

Showtime: Panipat | Official Trailer | Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon | Ashutosh Gowariker | Dec 6

*It’s the new historical epic by the director of “Jodhaa Akbar,” which also involved a gigantic scrap on the battlefield of Panipat. The huge fight...

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Lester Bangs talking to Brian Eno in 1979

*You can actually see rock music turning into techno music there. There’s also the interesting subtext that it’s not music at all, it’s generative sound...

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Showtime: Booktrailer – “Naila di Mondo9” di Dario Tonani – Oscar Fantastica, Mondadori – by Diego Capani

*It’s a book trailer for a fantascienza novel set on an alien planet.

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Into the tall weeds of Huawei and 5G

*One could wish for a lot more frankness in this ongoing cyberwar. For instance: who actually decided to pounce on the Huawei Princess? What was...

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Is Bengaluru India’s science fiction capital?

*Well, it would be all right by me. The Bangalore Literary Festival is going on this weekend. The Bangalore Mirror

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Thirty years after the Wall fell

*Amazingly, politics continued. This too shall pass Much has changed in Europe and the world since the Berlin Wall came down on the night of...

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A neural-net hacks the three-body problem

*Okay, that is weird. That is some of the big, low-hanging fruit of mathematics there. Whatever next, for heaven’s sake (…) However, the three-body problem...

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Special ringtones for Chinese deadbeats

Boy, in a shame-based culture, that has gotta hurt China’s “deadbeat” list is a running tracker of people who failed to meet court-ordered obligations —...

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Opinion: 50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?

*Good question. I would read that if I was you By LEONARD KLEINROCK OCT. 29, 2019 When I was a young scientist working on the...

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Avatar — fantascienza indiana

*Hmmm. This looks significant.

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