The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 - 0 views
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I've never been so happy to have an Internet account that doesn't belong to some ultra-rich creep.
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Terry Elliott on 20 Jan 14So telling. I think every one of my accounts is owned by such as Sterling describes.
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What's become of yesterday's august, sturdy, pre-digital institutions? For instance: why does the United States even have a Congress, in 2014? Is it habit? The Congress doesn't do anything now. Everybody despises them. They despise themselves even more than the public does.
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The NSA has no effective civilian oversight. Whoever does?
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What Sterling says about science fiction is...kinda shattering. Even simple observations about sms conventions. Wow!