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Bruce Sterling and the World

Bruce Sterling and I are having our annual "state of the world" talk on the WELL. Join us! (If you're not a member of the WELL, you can send questions to inkwell-hosts at well.com; they'll be posted. [Link]

The Internet has always been "very transitional." Stuff just booms and blooms and collapses in there, there are vogues and rumors and moral panics. I suspect that the deep driving forces are social and ethnic and civilizational now, it's no longer a matter of sort-of engineering the hubs to be smarter or dumber, or sticking in spam
guards and security patches. The driving forces are things like vast batallions of Chinese and Indian software engineers who are discovering that this stuff can be bent to their own civilizational purposes.

jon posted this at 11:35 PM
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