https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-18169-5_4#Sec2
Bruce Sterling @bruces
Bruce Sterling, an #author, #journalist, editor, #critic in #Turin, #Austin and #Ibiza #sciencefiction #fantascienza #BruceSterling
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Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*I quite like these back-of-the-envelope calculations about Dyson Spheres and Kardashev Civilizations
*They're nutty, but in a good way
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*If that's true, then how come social media is also "polarizing" and "fragmenting"
*Also, why is there Mastodon
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*A sacred firewalking screw-up. Gosh, that's got to hurt
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*Whatever happens to electronic musicians will happen to electronic everyone.
https://120years.net/the-superpiano-emerich-spielmann-austria-1927/
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
"Accelerated ageing tests on written voxels in borosilicate suggest data lifetimes exceeding 10,000 years."
*Well, how "Long Now" of them
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*For what it is, it's pretty good. It probably needs a sequel that goes a thousand years into the future.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*Makers radicalizing against ICE with their 3DPrinters
*That's not all that radical, but it's pretty radical as Makers go
https://www.wired.com/story/makers-are-building-back-against-ice/
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*I blame science fiction dystopias... no wait, I blame betting markets backed by Palantir and Trump Family members
https://defector.com/prediction-markets-are-betting-on-a-grim-future
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*What petty, vindictive act will OpenAI, Anthropic and loose-cannon Peter Steinberger perform next to screw each other over and spitefully offend their own early-adopters
*It's gotta be SOMETHING. All they need to do is fire up their AGI agents and generate cosmic schemes to derail their own Singularity
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*The ones who got OpenClaw to work are "faced with sleepless nights and a complete existential crisis"
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
The mistress of Pavel Durov has returned to her Dubai-centric lifestyle-blog scene
*I wonder if this has anything at all to do with Telegram getting banned in Russia
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
"Agent skills"
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
RE: @lisrosello@mastodon.social
*I can write a pretty good Marinetti parody, but I never yet got around to writing a Bifo parody, and you know, maybe I should
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
RE: @lisrosello@mastodon.social
*I enjoy a debate of this kind probably lots more than the next guy, but by "post-history" I mean statements about a world that's got no more "ontology" and no philosophers to have any
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*Worst-of-both-worlds scenario
"people are worrying both that AI investment won’t pay off (the $650bn that the big four platform companies announced they’ll invest this year) and also worrying it will demolish other industries (both can be true)"
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*I wonder if there's a "post-history" that is the dark twin of "the prehistoric"
*Events long after the extinction of mankind, with no one intelligent to bear any witness to them
The post-futurity, just as real as Earth before the rise-of-mammals
*How could you study it, what does it mean
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
They'r dead robots -- but they're getting even deader, fast
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*I went to the Mardi Gras in Ibiza ("It'll be exotic!") and ithe float was a "Game of Thrones" knock-off from a guy from New Mexico that I used to hang out with #GRRMartin
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*It's interesting that the hapless, needy people who adore the dead AI actually *understand the AI marketing business," and rather better than the most cynical hustlers, even
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
"You could have invented OpenClaw."
*But, well, that didn't occur to you. #invention
https://gist.github.com/dabit3/bc60d3bea0b02927995cd9bf53c3db32
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*I'm sitting here reading a learned paper generated by AIs that speculates about the economics of AI computer-crime
*What is this experience like? I don't think it's like anything else in my life, really
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*That's a pretty good design essay about ugly and freakish modern military hacks. #hedgehogtank #killerdrone
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
*At last, an entire light-day. That's a full 1/365th of a light-year. #spacetravel
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces
Bruce Sterling, an # author , # journalist , editor, # critic in # Turin , # Austin and # Ibiza # sciencefiction # fantascienza # BruceSterling https:// medium.com/@bruces