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Bruce Sterling: what if VR/AR are like science fiction novels?

A bit late, I had a busy week in the newsroom, but here is futurist, cyberpunk author, design-specialist, journalist Bruce Sterling at the closing of SXSW 2017: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/312762034″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] What does he say about virtual reality and augmented reality? I quote (9:30): I totally adore… Continue reading →

Bruce Sterling and the convergence of humans and machines

By rolandlegrand | February 24, 2015 - 11:24 pm |February 24, 2015 future

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Bruce Sterling is a tremendously inspiring science fiction author, futurist, design thinker and cultural critic. Menno Grootveld and Koert van Mensvoort had a great interview on nextnature.net with him about Artificial Intelligence, the Technological Singularity and all things convergence of humans and machines. In this interview, Sterling explains in very… Continue reading →

Reading: network theory, vernacular video, Kindle publishing and web of flow

By rolandlegrand | January 26, 2011 - 12:17 am |January 26, 2011 journalism, mobile, real time, social media, software development

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This is an overview of interesting stuff I found online. I’ll publish this on a regular basis (but not on a daily basis, I think). Even though some people think tools such as RSS feeds Google Reader are no longer relevant in this era of Twitter-based information streams, I still… Continue reading →

Rehearsing the day that we’ll program matter

By rolandlegrand | January 5, 2011 - 12:01 am |January 5, 2011 design, opensim, second life, software development

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So I’ve been monitoring that State of the World 2011 conversation on The WELL (with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowski), learning about design fiction (see also critical design) and watching an awesome video about Claytronics (programmable matter). Sterling, on his blog Beyond the Beyond: “Check out this bonkers Discovery Channel… Continue reading →

Talking about virtual worlds outside virtual worlds: The WELL

By rolandlegrand | January 4, 2011 - 9:12 pm |January 4, 2011 art, chat, culture, design, events, social media, virtual worlds

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In our first blog about other venues where people discuss virtual worlds, we talked about Quora. While Quora is very new, The WELL is almost ancient: The WELL is a cherished and acclaimed destination for conversation and discussion. It is widely known as the primordial ooze where the online community… Continue reading →