Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 790
May 30, 2009
Man, NO WONDER journalism is dead
*Look at the scary demographic microtargeting in my new blog ad here!
How do you suppose a grim message like this was lurking, lurking,
sniffing RSS feeds, ready to pounce?
The Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
THE INTERNET PAVILION
03 June - 22 November 2009
Started by Miltos Manetas in 2009
Curator - Jan Aman
Producer - Art Production Fund
53rd International Art Exhibition -
La Biennale di Venezia
Collateral Events
Location: The Internet.
http://www.PadiglioneInternet.com
http://www.Biennale.net
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General quarters: S.A.L.E, Magazzini del Sale.
Design and Propaganda - M/M (Paris)
Music - Mark Tranmer (GNAC), Howie B.
Architecture - Christian Wassmann
Fil
Arphid Watch: VeriChip Still Hanging In There Subcutaneously
(((Watching VeriChip never lacks for thrills. Will they move into the exciting new “lethal Saudi GPS chip” market?)))
VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ:CHIP) (“VeriChip” or the “Company”) announced today that it received notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market on May 27, 2009, that the Nasdaq Hearings Panel has granted the Company’s request to remain listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market and to transfer to The Nasdaq Capital Market, effective May 29, 2009. The Company’s continued listing is subject to the fo
Scapigliatura Bluestocking
Federico Faruffini, La lettrice, (1864-1865 ca.), olio su tela, 40×59 cm, Milano, Civiche Raccolte d’Arte
*That hand-rolled cig is proof positive that Italian boho chicks were mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature
1. Literature is language-based and national; contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot.
2. Vernacular means of everyday communication — cellphones, social networks, streaming video — are moving into areas where printed text cannot follow.
3. Intellectual property systems failing.
4. Means of book promotion, distribution and retail destabilized.
5. Ink-on-paper manufacturing is an outmoded, toxic industry with steeply rising costs.
6. Core demographic for printed media is aging faster t
Weirdly, feds really love the term ‘cyberspace’
*Everybody else is into terms like ‘the cloud,’ ‘ubiquity,’ ‘web 3.0,’ whatever,
but the feds are traditionalists.
FACT SHEET
Cyberspace Policy Review: Assuring a Trusted and Resilient Information and Communications Infrastructure
In February 2009, President Obama directed the National Security Council (NSC) and Homeland Security Council to conduct a 60-day review of the plans, programs, and activities underway throughout government that address our communications and information infrastructure (i.
May 29, 2009
Social Innovators ‘r’ Us
“The main activity of designers will be as social innovators,” said Ezio Manzini during an intimate conversation with o2NYC on May 6. Ezio’s talk outlined an exit strategy for conscious designers, a shift from making things to designing tools for a better society. For those of us who have signed on to the green revolution, who commit to having the conversation with clients, sourc
The rich tapestry of contemporary American extremism
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=1050
For many years he was the “monetary architect” of the “Liberty dollar,” much beloved by antigovernment “Patriots.” Nowadays, after running afoul of federal authorities over his alternative currency scheme, Bernard von NotHaus has embarked on a more ethereal venture: the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu, where he is the “high priest.” Church members step into the “High Room” for one toke of marijuana, then retire to a meditation room
Ian R. MacLeod’s Eight Problems in Writing Fiction About the Future
*I’m paraphrasing his remarks from a web livestream, which is pretty
much a departure in itself, and rather backs up his radical assertions here.
*From the “Thrilling Wonder Stories” architecture-fiction event
http://stream.aaschool.ac.uk/index.php
Ian R. MacLeod’s Eight Problems in Writing Fiction About the Future
1. Future not dominated by Western culture and its archaic Western concepts of “futurity”
2. Future subjects of fiction not “people” as we know human beings today
3. Space travel not what
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