Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 8

Rishi Kapoor (1952-2020)

He was a movie star rather than an actor, but what a life they have in the vast Kapoor clan. *If you like Rishi in...

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Life advice from guru Kevin Kelly

*If you followed all this advice faithfully, you would probably turn into Kevin Kelly, which might be mildly problematic in some ways, but nevertheless this...

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Zero gravity is really bad for you

*Hmmm. This is the most alarmist article about space medicine that Ive ever read. https://www.wired.com/story/how-space... Oddly most space-veteran astronauts Ive met looked really perky ()...

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The tourism business

*Europeans are starting to realize that there isnt any tourism in a quarantine, but there isnt any tourism anywhere else, either. *So maybe they can...

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The Central Leading Small Group for Propaganda and Thought Work

*Oh to be a fly on the wall. https://www.merics.org/sites/default/...

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WraPr, a spool-based 3D fabricator

*I thought Id seen plenty of fab stuff done with filaments, but obviously I hadnt seen it all. Thats pretty groovy. And its out of...

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The lavish lifestyles of the great media figures of the past

*This is a Conde Nast blog, by the way. So, if the empire perishes of viral economic decline, its not real likely that this blog...

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They were talking aloud in a call center

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/... Shoulder to shoulder, sharing the virus-laden air

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Economic catastrophe, featuring Nikola Tesla

*Been there, done that.

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Get ready to eat more tacos

*The epidemic is playing into the hands of taco imperialism. https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily... Tacos are important and getting more so

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