Comments on: Bruce Sterling talks technology and science fiction with Intel's futurist Brian David Johnson

By: RedShirt77

RedShirt77 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:27:00 +0000

Futurism seems like a rare and valuable skill in a world wear most corporations seem unable to predict the present.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:14:00 +0000

I talked to Sterling one-on-one a bit at the BoingBoing meetup in LA last summer, and listened in on his conversations with others, and he is one of the most interesting conversationalists I’ve ever talked to. He understands the audience perfectly and both speaks to their level of understanding and knows just what to say and ask to prompt you to get your own interesting thoughts out on the subject of the conversation (that you may not have realized you even had).

I spoke to him in private in the corner of the room for only a few minutes but we covered several topics (among them augmented reality a la Virtual Light, world travel, love(!), and more) and I felt a lot smarter afterwards ;)

By: Jacques Tilburn

Jacques Tilburn — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:39:00 +0000

Cory, whenever there’s an embedded video on BB with a link through youtube-nocookie.com, my Chrome browser throws up an error:
This webpage is not availableGoogle Chrome’s connection attempt to http://www.youtube-nocookie.com was rejected.

Do you know why this always happens, and what I can do to fix this?

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:14:00 +0000

Sterling: It’s actually making some very somber kinds of finger-wagging political state….
Intel: Cue the cut-off music!

By: timquinn

timquinn — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:10:00 +0000

It’s obvious that Sterling respects his interviewer here. He is slower and less snarky than usual. Good model for any aspiring journalists out there, Brian David Johnson I mean.

By: Jardine

Jardine — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:54:00 +0000

The sound of Bruce Sterling’s voice always seems to remind me of something he said in Freedom Downtime (a documentary about Kevin Mitnick and hacking in general). He was talking about Tsutomu Shimomura (The FBI consultant who helped track Mitnick down) hacking a cell phone in front of a couple of FBI agents and Congressmen. “This fucker’s got balls the size of durian fruit.”