Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 45

When you get harassed by North Korean cyberwarriors

*My goodness, that certainly is spiteful. https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-rel... In November 2014, SPE (((Sony Pictures))) learned that the cyber-attackers had gained unauthorized access to SPE’s computer network,...

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Not Invented Here

*Well, of course the telephone company wanted nothing to do with the Internet. The telegram company didn’t want anything to do with Bell’s voice telephone,...

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The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle

*Mad Madge and the guy in her life, who seems to have been quite supportive of her creative efforts.

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“Grounds of Natural Philosophy,” a work by Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673)

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58404 “Grounds of Natural Philosophy,” a work by Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673). GROUNDS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY DIVIDED INTO THIRTEEN PARTS WITH AN...

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The dystopia of the Duchess Margaret Cavendish

*And, finally, the second, dystopian world of the Duchess, which is naturally a lot more interesting, since it has conflict and drama. CHAP. I. Of...

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The utopia of the Duchess Margaret Cavendish

*And here comes speculative world number one, “the Regular World,” a Duchess Margaret Cavendish sci-fi utopia, where every aspect of existence is neatly regulated, and...

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The different worlds of the Duchess Margaret Cavendish

*After much earnest toil setting the scientific world aright, the Duchess finally allows herself to get to the part she really enjoys, which is just...

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The biological theory of the Duchess Margaret Cavendish

*Here the Duchess creeps up on important matters later tackled by Darwin’s theory of evolution. But she resolves it in a very neat way: “Confusion”...

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The theory of light of the Duchess Margaret Cavendish

*This is the theory of light by the Duchess, and look out, Isaac Newton. Because she can see Light, with her senses, Light must be...

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Drugs and the Duchess Margaret Cavendish

*A woman of such high imagination is hard-put not to be interested in narcotics. How do drugs do something to the mind or body, and...

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