Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 97

Indian government asserts sovereignty over all the hardware in India

*Well, at least it’s a consistent plan. Cyberspace Sovereignty is the order of the day. https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/21/in... The Indian government has authorized 10 central agencies to...

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Blogs, dead or alive

*Can’t blame him for stopping after ten years. Enough with the science blogging (…) In the early 2000s, a blog was a word with a...

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Massive product failures

*Those are fantastic. Imagine surrounding yourself with these objects and services, exclusively. Dozens of infamous product failures Product innovation is one way that large corporations...

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Cultural artifacts people have shot into outer space

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles... (…) Until recently, no one had really put together a full picture of what humans have sent off-Earth with intent of communicating something about...

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Gaming the Amazon marketplace

*Because why wouldn’t they? It’s worth zillions. Quick, beg a platform pseudo-lawyer for help before it’s too late (…) When you buy something on Amazon,...

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Shame storms

*Well, they’re fun to watch till you’re in one. The “Human Flesh Search Engine,” as they used to call it in China. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2... (…) No...

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The Japanese computer underground

*It amazes me that they’re this mild and gentlemanly. It’s like they’re all listening to groovy, soothing YMO back-ground-music on vinyl records. The Recorded Future,...

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What would a genuine legislative remedy look like?

*Well, you’d have to have a genuine legislature before you could have any genuine remedies. The current legislature is even worse than Facebook, since it’s...

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Seeking the future in the year 536 AD

*Boy are there ever gonna be a lot of articles like this one in the decade to come. The old dark age versus the shiny...

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Narco kingpin fails to renew software license

*Gee whiz. Actually worse than Al Capone and the income tax

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