Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 92

Making the case that Oumuamua was an alien spacecraft

*I’m not saying it’s convincing, but as a rational line of argument, marshaling what facts there are, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s not like...

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New Normal architectural theory

*Hey, if Aaron Betsky can handle it, I guess I can at least try. Meanwhile, in Architect Magazine Welcome to the New Normal A group...

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The Bauhaus is a hundred years old

*It’s so interesting that there are so many design tours nowadays, and even *historic* design tours where all the designers are long-dead. The museum economy...

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Science fiction novels about American political collapse

*There are rather a lot of them, and that was back in 2017. Paul Di Filippo doing a roundup

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The WELL State of the World 2019

In the Year of the Pig, the hidden beauty will dematerialize in the new dark

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New Keiichi Matsuda design fiction video

“With automation disrupting centuries-old industries, the professional must reshape and expand their service to add value. Failure is a mindset. It is those who empower...

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Scanning the Ettore Sottsass archive

*A good idea, but you wonder how they will manage to archive the scans. Not only is digital media mighty crumbly in and of itself,...

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The Embroidered Computer

*Dr Kurbak and Dr Posch pretty on top of their game here. Yes, they embroider computers

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Machine Landscapes: the Site and Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene

A new book edited by Liam Young DESCRIPTION The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres,...

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Thomas Demand in Milano

*Man, I only wish I was in Italy to see that. He’s one of the most interesting artists I ever met.

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