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SXSW: Verbatim in places, Bruce Sterling closing speech. Telling the truth is a revolut... - 0 views

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Moral authority based on technocracy. The small pieces loosely joined begin to rattle like bones.
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If we had it to do over the first thing we should have demonitized was food and shelter.  Imagine if the world had open source food, and shelter.
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Why is there not a single startup whose business model is communist? From each according to their ability to each according to their need, Vanguard of the revolution… how much could it hurt?
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it looks like Detroit
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It looks like New Orleans
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The Future: History that Hasn't Happened Yet - SXSW 2017 by SXSW | Free Listening on So... - 0 views

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sjef: A Basic Introduction to Singularity Skepticism - 0 views

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Is this the philosophy Bruce Sterling was portraying/satirizing in his story about the termite exterminator?

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Warren
- Ed Webb on 16 Oct 10
  
  Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan (also check out his Freakangels - Google will get you there, or warrenellis.com)
  
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The Caryatids
- Ed Webb on 16 Oct 10
  
  Bruce Sterling's most recently published novel, quite dystopian.
  
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Neuromancer
- Ed Webb on 16 Oct 10
  
  William Gibson's first published novel, mostly reckoned to be the first cyberpunk novel, although that's not undisputed, and there were short stories before that, some of which we've read.
  
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((via @russelldavies from his post here.))
- Ed Webb on 16 Oct 10
  
  Russell Davies is the main force behind the recent revival of Doctor Who, as well as its spin-off Torchwood.
  
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Advertising is probably the worst kind of SciFi in this regard. No integrity. No expectations that what is being presented has any relationship to possibility. Maybe SciFi as it was has switched places with advertising: Warren Ellis says SciFi does extrapolation. Advertising-as-SciFi does..what? Dishonest predicting?
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Americans on the future of science and technology: meh | Bryan Alexander - 2 views

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our expectations are generally unexcited and restrained.  The bold imagination of 20th-century American visions seems to have gone for a nap.  As Smithsonian’s article notes, “Most Americans view the technology- driven future with a sense of hope. They just don’t want to live there.”  We’re actually less excited than that
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When it comes to specific emerging technologies we often greet them with broad, deep skepticism and fear, including human genetic engineering, robotics, drones, and wearable computing: 66% think it would be a change for the worse if prospective parents could alter the DNA of their children to produce smarter, healthier, or more athletic offspring. 65% think it would be a change for the worse if lifelike robots become the primary caregivers for the elderly and people in poor health. 63% think it would be a change for the worse if personal and commercial drones are given permission to fly through most U.S. airspace. 53% of Americans think it would be a change for the worse if most people wear implants or other devices that constantly show them information about the world around them. (emphases in original)
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The heroic days of NASA in the popular imagination are long flown: “One in three (33%) expect that humans will have colonized planets other than Earth.”  Indeed. a few more Americans actually see teleportation happening.
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Overall, Americans look at the future of science and technology with some hefty amounts of skepticism and dismay.  Health care improvements do appeal to us, unsurprisingly, given our ageing demographics.  Classic futures themes of space and travel have withered in our collective mind.  I’m reminded of Bruce Sterling’s aphorism about the rest of the 21st century: “The future is about old people, in big cities, afraid of the sky.”
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