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"Bruce Sterling"

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Bruce Sterling interviews

Bruce Sterling interviews 01/07/2004 06:12 PM
Two exciting and thought-provoking Bruce Sterling interviews are online today: an hour-long MP3 of an interview with Massi ve Change on the University of Toronto's CIUT radio and a long interview on the future of everything with Mike "Godwin's Law" Godwin in the libertarian mag, "Reason."

reason: Blogging seems to have taken a place in the culture that used to be occupied by fanzines, and maybe by the science fiction magazines.

Sterling: It had its apotheosis in people like Cory Doctorow [author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom] and other writers who really aren’t that interested in the old paper world. Cory actually publishes stuff electronically, and blogging is his Weird Tales. He is of a generation sufficiently divorced from the old pulps that he’s the dolphin among mesosaurs here.

5.9MB MP3 Link, Reason Link (via Futurismic)

Interview with Bruce Sterling

Interview with Bruce Sterling 01/06/2004 01:10 PM

Public Bruce Sterling interview on the
WELL

Public Bruce Sterling interview on the
WELL 01/04/2005 02:40 AM
Cory Doctorow: Bruce Sterling is conducting his annual "state of the world" interview on the WELL's public "Inkwell" conference -- you can read along and send questions to Jon Lebkowsky, the moderator, for Bruce to answer.

Well, for two years I've been trying to write a science fiction novel about "ubiquitous computation." However, I'm now so close to my material that, when I went to lecture about it, I got asked to join the faculty of a design school.

It's not like I get tenure, mind you. I'm merely guest-artist for a year, or, as they like to put it at my new alma mater, Art Center College of Design, I'm "Provocateur-in-Residence." But I get a salary, and, more to the point, I get to play in the prototype lab.

I could have said, "No, I've got to finish sci-fi novel number umpteen here," but, gee whiz, if they're asking, why not go? ACCD is one of the world's most-famed design schools, and justly so. I was flattered.

I was in residence for a couple of weeks at Cranbrook School of Design back in the early 90s, and I wrote the outline and proposal for my novel HOLY FIRE there. That turned out to be one of my better books. So, y'know, I'll do it. What the hey.

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Bruce Sterling in San Francisco next
Friday

Bruce Sterling in San Francisco next
Friday 06/03/2004 03:31 PM
Bruce Sterling will rant about "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole" in San Francisco next Friday, June 11. Bruce's lecture is part of the Long Now Foundation's free "Seminars About Long-term Thinking" series. Link

RNC protests predicted by Bruce Sterling
story

RNC protests predicted by Bruce Sterling
story 08/28/2004 03:27 PM
Cory Doctorow: Jonah sez, "I've written an essay that compares the planned RNC actions, technologies and protests next week to the Wende in Bruce Sterling's short story 'Deep Eddy' and the Wende period of the falling of the berlin wall. It's also a piece that speculates whether the actions and technologies employed in the streets will produce any results. Just thought you and your readers might be interested."

And so the stage has been set. Hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions will be arriving in a city full of citizens already hostile to the political party that has chosen to hold it’s National Convention in their city for reasons of emotional manipulation. The police and city officials have set up a number of strenuous and overly aggressive methods of control.

That this event will be anything less than similar to Sterling’s description of the Wende is doubtful. At the very least a very large number of protestors will participate in one of the most varied, vocal and interesting political protests in American history. At the most extreme, the massive disturbance will awaken a number of American citizens to what the Bush administration is really up to and set off a sequence of events that will alter our political landscape.

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Bruce Sterling hits his stride on his
bl0g

Bruce Sterling hits his stride on his
bl0g 12/02/2003 01:40 AM
Bruce Sterling's been running his new Wired blog for a couple months now, and this morning, though, he hit his stride with a classic cyberpunk-dense review-cum-rant of a Brazillian electro-pop CD. This is killer prose.

I am digging this thing. Even a white-guy-samba chestnut like "So Nice (Summer Samba)" springs into a weird post-60s afterlife once it's been globally cyberized with a samplerdelic melange of hisses, whoops, whooshes, bleeps, thuds and twitters. The spacey remixes of "Tanto Tempo" sounds like they're scratching at the edge of the universe with thick rubber spatulas.

I pay attention to electronica for obvious reasons, and I can always get along with easy-going, caiparinha-blurred Brazilian beach music... I mean, who couldn't like such stuff, it's so harmlessly sexual and ingratiating... but techno gives bossa nova some serious nova-osity. The fact that these are actual songs, with verse-verse chorus and that ruthlessly slinky beat, gives all that synth dithering some useful spine. Hey, it's "Brazilectronica!" This stuff could conquer the world!

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Bruce Sterling On Lovelock's Pro-Nuclear
Stance

Bruce Sterling On Lovelock's Pro-Nuclear
Stance 05/31/2004 07:01 PM

Debut of Wired Magazine's first bl0g:
Bruce Sterling, Beyond the Beyond

Debut of Wired Magazine's first bl0g:
Bruce Sterling, Beyond the Beyond 11/04/2003 01:21 PM
Now online: "Beyond the Beyond" by Bruce Sterling, the first blog launched by Wired Magazine. Forthcoming launches are said to include a Mac-related blog from veteran Wired News correspondent Leander Kahney. From the "Wired Blogs" home page:

Wired News and Wired Magazine Blogs are new features that allow our writers and readers to post their thoughts on recent developments and ideas in their corner of the Web. As a new site feature, these blogs will grow and develop into living, breathing areas for the exchange of links, thoughts, and information.

Mr. Sterling explains that he will not be incorporating comments into said blog:

I plan to blog to this site EVERY SINGLE DAY except for weekends and major nondenominational holidays. Minor planetary calamities such as military invasions, Microsoft worms, electrical blackouts, abject market collapses, a patch of California the size of Rhode Island catching fire from climate change -- not only will these mishaps not slow me down in my blogging duties, they will probably SPEED ME UP. Note that there is NO COMMENTARY ALLOWED in my pristine, high-toned blog here. Why? Because you might be a spammer, that's why! When I have a big red anti-spam button I can push that will cause Homeland Security to arrest you immediately and deport you to Guantanamo, then you may comment. Until then, no blog-reader of mine will ever be forced to endure your lame illegal product pitches, and that goes double for you harebrained flamers and trollers.

Incidentally, I understand these sites will all use a weblog-building tool from Tripod -- part of the Terra/Lycos family of companies, which owns Wired News, but not Wired Magazine, which is owned by Conde Nast. Link to "Beyond the Beyond."

Bonus Zen of Death round: Tuscan
deathbl0g from Bruce Sterling

Bonus Zen of Death round: Tuscan
deathbl0g from Bruce Sterling 08/31/2004 05:17 PM
Xeni Jardin: Bruce Sterling is cyberpunking it up around Tuscany, the bastard, and has been shooting some lovely images of funerary sculpture. Start here, move back for more: Link.
See also previous BoingBoing post: Zen of Death

Watching Rats Abandon Ship - Transcript
of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft
Corporation

Watching Rats Abandon Ship - Transcript
of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft
Corporation 05/23/2004 01:52 AM
his speech at MS Research .. ranting, in part, .. Bruce Sterling

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"BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH
2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth""

"BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH
2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth"" 08/17/2004 03:14 PM

BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004
speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth"

BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004
speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth" 08/17/2004 12:58 PM
BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the Earth"

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"Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television."

"Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television." 06/11/2004 05:57 PM

Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television

Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television 06/10/2004 10:19 PM
superb colloboration .. ingenious.org.uk .. 3 museums,

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The Windmill Takes the First One...

The Windmill Takes the First One... 12/24/2004 12:58 PM
When one is jousting windmills, the possibility of getting whacked by a windmill blade goes with the enterprise. While I'm a veteran of many Quixotic campaigns, I've never become fully immune to the sting of defeat, and I'm still absorbing last Wednesday's drubbing in the North San Mateo County Courthouse. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, please see my previous post, A Taste of the System.) To put it bluntly, we lost the first round in our effort to limit the scope of administrative searches of checked airline luggage to something vaguely compatible with the 4th Amendment which states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Actually, however, this loss was neither unanticipated, nor even unwelcome. We're aiming to set a precedent here, and in order to do that, we have to get to at least the state appellate level. This means that I have to lose twice (at the first hearing to suppress and then at the county appellate level) before I can win in a way that might begin to alter federal behavior. We may already be affecting federal behavior to some extent. I noticed that one of the links to A Taste of the System was from the TSA workers' website, so at least a few of those who toil in the bowels of baggage inspection are meditating on the hassles they might bring on themselves by reporting non-explosive contraband. The possibility that the bag in question might belong to some prickly fellow like me could make them think twice before calling the cops. (Or maybe not. I've learned from a TSA worker's account in the Miami New Times that some TSA workers are being offered cash rewards of up to $1000 for reporting drugs.) Moreover, we seem to have hit a public nerve that may encourage a more general prickliness about this stuff. I'm beginning to think that, whatever the judicial result, I've done some social good merely by standing up and saying, as many silently believe, that these searches suck. We got, and are getting, a fair amount of press. NPR ran a segment on All Things Considered Thursday. CNN is planning on covering the story, along with a broader look at TSA screening procedures, tonight. The Washington Post ran a story about it yesterday. There was also local coverage, including the San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco's KGO Television. And the Blogosphere lit up. For awhile on Thursday, according to Web tracker Bloogz, A Taste of the System was being linked more frequently than any other web page in English, save Google. I've received several hundred e-mails about this matter and the blog entry relating to it already has almost two hundred comments dangling from it. These seem to come in only two varieties: "Attaboy!" and "You're such an idiot for carrying drugs on a plane that you deserve whatever torments you've gotten or will get." (I hadn't realized that idiots might be exempted from constitutional protection - indeed, you'd think we need it worse - but about 20% of my correspondents seem to think otherwise.) All this fuss has been positive, I believe. (Though if there were any nasty federal lists I had made before, I've probably fixed that now...) Our rights have been slipping quietly away, one secret emergency regulation at a time. We need to either hop out of pot or wait meekly to be boiled in it. If my travails have inspired more discourse on the subject, then it's worth the additional risk. Still, I want to win this case in a way that will legally confine checked baggage searches to such targets as might actually endanger the aircraft. Achieving that objective will require a long row against a stiff current if my experience on Wednesday is any indication. And here's what that was like......

BarlowFriendz: The Windmill Takes the
First One...

BarlowFriendz: The Windmill Takes the
First One... 12/26/2004 03:23 AM
JP Barlow recounts his day in court

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Windmill Goes Wireless With Free
Internet Access

Windmill Goes Wireless With Free
Internet Access 08/17/2004 05:08 PM
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Nader Raising Money for Possible
Windmill Tilting Campaign

Nader Raising Money for Possible
Windmill Tilting Campaign 12/03/2003 05:15 AM
Nader Floats 2004 Trial Balloon for Presidential Run .. NADER FORMS EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE .. WASHINGTON (AP)

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Sterling on FAST/Overture

Sterling on FAST/Overture 02/25/2003 11:40 PM
In his commentary on FAST/Overture and such, Sterling says: Inktomi will probably be further relegated to Yahoo!, and slowly die. Especially since Overture has already penetrated the other major portals, such as Excite, Go!, NBCi and AskJeeves (and incidentally Yahoo!,...

Sterling on Code Comments

Sterling on Code Comments 12/02/2003 12:44 AM
Sterling Hughes brings up an interesting point in one of his latest weblog entries when talking about comments in the source of PHP documents. ...

Sterling engines for space

Sterling engines for space 09/21/2004 05:03 AM
David Pescovitz: NASA-funded scientists are designing Stirling engines, first invented in 1816, to power long-range spacecraft that travel too far from the Sun to use solar power. Decaying plutonium heats up helium until it starts a chain reaction of contraction and expansion, producing sound waves that fire a piston.

"Inside the engine, the acoustic pressure is high enough to pop your eardrums," (Northrop Grumman researcher Mike) Petach told New Scientist. "It's louder than a thunderclap." He adds that the sound does not escape the engine, so the device could be used to produce electricity for submarines, which must glide undetected beneath the ocean's surface.

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Public Sterling interview on the WELL

Public Sterling interview on the WELL 01/02/2004 02:34 PM
Bruce Sterling's doing a public interview on The WELL -- it's just been running for a day or so, and it's already accumulating some primo SterlingRants:

Spammers are not monsters ten feet tall. Spammers are vermin. If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury.

Spammers are parasites. They contribute nothing to the general welfare. Spammers couldn't trust each other with five bucks to walk down to the corner grocery and bring back a loaf of bread. They are wicked and malicious and they should be brought to justice.

The day when the delete key still ruled, well, these cool clean technocratic days are over on the Net. Microsoft might patch some security holes here and there, but there are no technical solutions to semantic frauds like phishing. The Internet has become a massive, worldwide medium. It has become a global arena of massive popular struggle, It's Chinese Indian American Brazilian European, the world wide works, and it reflects our own faults and deficits with cruel accuracy. When we look at the Net these days, we are staring straight into the portrait of Dorian Gray.

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Sterling/Woodgate rap audio

Sterling/Woodgate rap audio 03/14/2003 10:05 PM
Lisa Rein has posted audio and a partial video of the Bruce Sterling/Derek Woodgate rap at SXSW. Link Discuss

Sterling and Woodgate's futurism,
transcribed

Sterling and Woodgate's futurism,
transcribed 03/13/2003 11:28 AM
Heath Row has posted his transcript of Bruce Sterling and Derek Woodgate's conversation at SXSW, a funny, high-speed discussion of the future looming on the horizon.

Sterling: Let's move onto Topic No. 4: Influence on industry. The thing that impressed me with the foamed aluminum wasn’t the thing itself but the amount of sensing. You almost need aluminum moussing. Just the right temperature. What happens when that crashes? What happens when it's no longer under the control of experts? What if I can go down to Kinko's and foam me some aluminum?

It’s the Linux model for physical objects. It's a really intriguing organizational problem that our society has that no else seems to have. What happens to General Motors if people can build cars? What if you could just download the stats to build a Model T? That can't be that hard. Henry Ford wasn't that big a guy. What if you built one out of foamed aluminum and chopped bamboo? How much would it really cost? Maybe a couple of million dollars? A Model T cost $400 bucks new. And there was no one in particular making them.

It's a Red Hat automobile. There's no digital rights management. When it wore out you'd just make another. How would we fit that into the litigation structure? Who do you sue? What are we going to do when kids are making stuff -- stuff -- not drivers, but actual stuff? We have a major military problem over it. The terrorist spread of mass destruction is basically a Linux model for nuclear weapons. That’s why were going to take out Iraq. It used to be that only governments could afford weapons of mass destruction. Now small groups of networked activists can get their hands on the stuff.

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SimpleXML Tutorial by Sterling Hughes

SimpleXML Tutorial by Sterling Hughes 04/30/2004 06:14 AM
Straight from the horse's mouth. Sterling is one of lead developers of SimpleXML.

Sterling Commerce Completes Acquisition
of TR2

Sterling Commerce Completes Acquisition
of TR2 04/22/2004 04:17 PM
Sterling Commerce has completed its acquisition of TR2, bolstering its position in the retail and consumer packaged goods industries.

DoCoMo to sell 3 UK stake for 120
million sterling

DoCoMo to sell 3 UK stake for 120
million sterling 05/27/2004 12:31 PM
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Sterling does a public interview on The
Zenith Angle

Sterling does a public interview on The
Zenith Angle 08/23/2004 06:36 AM
Cory Doctorow: Bruce Sterling's doing a virtual public interview on the WELL this week about his new technothriller, The Zenith Angle. I really liked this -- the blurb I sent Bruce went "Sterling has his fingers on about a hundred different pulses in this book, which vibrates with fantastic in-jokes and insights from Bollywood to dot-bomb, from mil-spec gear-pigs to earnest cybercops. The story rockets along like a hijacked airliner heading straight at you, like a flash-worm compromising every unpatched Windows box on the net at once. I read it in one sitting, and I'll read it again before the month is out. Lots of books are called 'thrillers' but very few are this thrilling."

The thing that always intrigued me about technothrillers was that technicians are support staff rather than protagonists. I mean, who makes a worse enemy -- James Bond, with a "license to kill" -- or H. Ross Perot? Perot's a weedy-looking Wally Cox mainframe nerd, but he doesn't hesitate to hire ex=Special Forces types and conduct private black-bag operations in Iran.

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Sterling Hughes: Zend Studio
Defficiencies

Sterling Hughes: Zend Studio
Defficiencies 04/12/2004 07:31 AM
Over on Sterling Hughes' weblog, there is a new posting that tells some of what he really thinks about the Zend Studio IDE.

PayPal to Accept Euros and Pound
Sterling Currencies

PayPal to Accept Euros and Pound
Sterling Currencies 09/25/2002 02:52 PM
"Starting on October 9...The initial roll-out of Multiple Currencies will give PayPal account holders the option of sending and receiving their payments in Pounds Sterling or Euros, as well as U.S. Dollars."

Vat I Vant vill be Vulvilled in PHP Vive
- Danks, Sterling

Vat I Vant vill be Vulvilled in PHP Vive
- Danks, Sterling 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
To me, this just seems like the PHP5 way of doing XML. Simple, Elegant and Efficient. We could of course provide DOM and SAX for the purists (SAX is also better for large files), and people using XSLT. However, I think this API just maps itself to the problem domain perfectly (and could easily be implemented on top of libxml). -- Sterling Hughes After studying Sterling Hughes' many contributions to PHP, i have come to realize that he has a profound understanding of simplicity. "zeldman.bluey"

BlueBridge Networks Acquires Sterling
Data Summary

BlueBridge Networks Acquires Sterling
Data Summary 05/31/2004 02:06 PM
Bluebridge Networks, LLC (“Bluebridge” or the “Company”) Is pleased to announce that on March 1st, 2004, the Company acquired the Sterling Data Center (the “Data Center”), a 20,000 sq. ft. world class data center, located in Cleveland, OH. [PRWEB May 24, 2004]

Sterling Commerce Releases B-To-B
Collaboration Platform Upgrade

Sterling Commerce Releases B-To-B
Collaboration Platform Upgrade 04/09/2005 02:47 AM
Information Week Apr 9 2005 6:42AM GMT

Wesley Clark on Kerry’s sterling
military record

Wesley Clark on Kerry’s sterling
military record 04/28/2004 10:22 AM
NYT

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Is Your Name Not Bruce?

Is Your Name Not Bruce? 04/29/2004 01:56 AM
Okay, the experiment is officially over; you can go back to being yourselves here (as of right now). Which one was I? The one who was myself - not the Alpha, not the Omega, not even the Tau Kappa Epsilon. I guess, most of all, I wanted to break the trend of personal belief bashing around these parts. You can claim to be me, but you're still not - just as I am not you. We're all each other, individuals... except for that one guy....

Sterling-Hoffman announces Angel Mehta
to speak at Software Business 2004

Sterling-Hoffman announces Angel Mehta
to speak at Software Business 2004 09/24/2004 03:27 AM
Executive Recruiting Veteran to share insights on 'Why Software Companies Fail' from a 'Headhunter's perspective'. [PRWEB Sep 24, 2004]

Wegmans Lauds Sterling Commerce for
Putting 100-plus Vendors Online With
Data Sync

Wegmans Lauds Sterling Commerce for
Putting 100-plus Vendors Online With
Data Sync 08/12/2004 05:44 AM
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