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Writer of some excellence Bruce Sterling gave a talk at Emerging Technology 2006, and the transcript of it is here. I think he's coyote-into-the-brick-wall wrong about many of the things he has to say, and he sucks pretty badly at inventing neologisms, but it's fascinating to watch the arc and spatter of the fountain of ideas he throws off, and there's light there, aplenty. About his ideas, more, later, maybe, when my brain has time to percolate for a while. Perhaps it's just that the future he describes isn't one in which I have a whole hell of a lot of desire to live.

Then again the present is not one I'm all that thrilled with, either.

Anyway, one of the reasons I found it interesting, beyond the thoughtprovoking superball boing! of his ideas, is that if you squint and tilt your head the right way, he's exploring the opposite end of the teeter-totter from the one I perched on here, recently. That I mentioned Neal Stephenson and William Gibson in that post, and that Bruce completes with them a neat authorial trio in my mind, is just a pleasant serendipity.

Not only that, but he mentions my net.friend Adam Greenfield, and Adam's new book 'Everyware', which I am pleased to recommend highly even though I haven't actually read it yet (but will, by god, soon).