Tags · Bruce Sterling

• 07-Oct-2024

  
  Cyberpunk at 40. Joanna McNeil has a new piece up at Filmmaker. The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk. It’s a terrific appreciation for cyberpunk, and for William Gibson’s writing in particular. I’ve often wondered why cyberpunk tattooed itself into my brain the second I encountered it. This passage from her column sounds like “why”...

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• 13-Mar-2024

  
  Viridian was science fiction writer Bruce Sterling’s effort to report on and think about climate change and what design might do about it. He declared himself “Pope-Emperor” of Viridian. With 500 Viridian Notes over 10 years, from 1998 to 2008, he wrote, and I learned about climate science, news on extreme weather and design across the planet. It was terrifying, edifying, and inspirational. I entered 5 Viridian Design contests. Never won, but these were great exercises for my developing Illustrator, PhotoShop and web skills. This is “Greeny Megawatt” a modernized Reddy Kilowatt. As part of revisiting EVERYTHING on my site artlung dot com I’ve updated the pages they live on and integrated them into my #WordPress custom theme. Fun time capsule.

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• 11-Mar-2024

  
  Revamping Viridian Contest Entry pages One of the earliest usages of my site was for small projects. One kind of project was participating in Viridian Design Contests. What were they? The contests are were opportunities for graphic or conceptual creativity. Logos, posters, teapots, lamps, that sort of thing. We do this to amuse ourselves, and to give some coherent form...

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• 16-Jan-2024
  Where Mickey Mouse is as big as a house (Whoa-oh-oh) I have less of a reaction about Steamboat Willie coming into the public domain than I thought I would. Copyright fascinates me though. I remember when I was a teenager writing to the Library of Congress to get their publications–pamphlets really–explaining the process. It was fascinating. It seemed straightforward, and yet also their writing managed...

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• 22-Mar-2018

  
  Remember when we used to link to things? So here’s a link to Doc Searls: Enough Alreadies, who said about leaving Quora: Even if something gets a lot of notice, the news cycle is hardly longer than Now, and the sense of having done something quickly disappears. The beautiful blog about aging with style Advanced Style posts Volunteer with Meals on Wheels, which sounds...

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• 16-Sep-2016

  
  Sheldon Brown, Jasmina Tešanović, and Bruce Sterling Sheldon Brown, Jasmina Tešanović, and Bruce Sterling on Septemer 9, 2016 at the The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination — a great, inspiring night of talking about robots, industrial design, activism, design fiction, the Maker movement, and much else. My brains percolating with ideas from last night. — at UCSD Atkinson Hall. Watch...

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• 02-Mar-2012
  Quote of the Day: Bruce Sterling, in 1998 How will the digitalization and networking of information affect us and change people’s lives? Bruce Sterling: You’d do better seeking out the very few aspects of people’s lives that will remain unchanged by this. What should we watch out for in an information-rich, techo-Utopia? Bruce Sterling: Surveillance, spies, Mafias, stock market and currency bubbles; stalking,...

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• 27-Jan-2011
  Bruce Sterling on Vernacular Video Closing Keynote: Vernacular Video by Bruce Sterling on how media morph over time. Chief insight I’ve read before but never heard: to look forward in time, you have to also look twice as far back into the past.

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• 09-Jan-2011
  Anecdote of the Day Fragment from Bruce Sterling: I once had a long bus-ride with a reeking, sweaty, jittery madman who had clearly once been a formidably intelligent and very well-read scholar. It seemed pretty clear to me that it had been a long time since anybody had been able to indulge him in a conversation. Although, he couldn’t...

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• 09-Dec-2006
  Science Fiction Definition via Bruce Sterling In 2004, Bruce Sterling spoke at the Long Now foundation on the topic: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole. One sequence jumped out of me when listening to the audio because of the very funny at once insightful and dismissive definition of Science Fiction he cites. Before this part he’s talking about the...

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