Bruce Sterling - Quotes
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.
TOMORROW NOW is a long meditation of physically living through the coming years. It's all about human flesh, instead of cyber-centric.
Once I got my head around this idea that 'the future' was bogus, I was able to mess around with a lot of invisible assumptions.
My ideal Internet 25 years from now is one where some godforsaken little kid in Left Elbow, Kurdistan, can get a full-scale summa cum laude college-education just by pointing and clicking at stuff he is interested in.
People are going to combine the computation thing and the genetic biological thing and going to start actually tinkering with people's thought processes in an industrial way. And if you thought LSD was a lot of fun, wait until this really works.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance