The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. - Bruce Sterling
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
- Bruce Sterling
Tomorrow composts today. - Bruce Sterling
Tomorrow composts today.
The future is a process, not a destination. - Bruce Sterling
The future is a process, not a destination.
The past is a kind of future that has already happened. - Bruce Sterling
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere. - Bruce Sterling
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up… - Bruce Sterling
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up…
When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are … - Bruce Sterling
When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are …
But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long centur… - Bruce Sterling
But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long centur…
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. - Bruce Sterling
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
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