Comments on: Bruce Sterling's closing SXSW keynote: disruption and destruction

By: DataShade

DataShade — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:04:00 +0000

aggravated pastslaughter

By: Dr. Chronobiologist

Dr. Chronobiologist — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:05:00 +0000

The only advantage a tablet has over my desktop is that it’ll be easier to throw in the trash as I walk back to my desktop.

By: AGC

AGC — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:41:00 +0000

Web 1.0 is still alive. It’s still as big as it was in the late 1990s, just proportionally it looks small compared to the growing web 2.0. Things don’t die, they just fade into the background.

By: Kevin Pierce

Kevin Pierce — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:09:00 +0000

You can watch the keynote on YouTube, but the sound is echoey, so listen to the SoundCloud audio and sync the two (not that hard to do)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsIQCgyz4s&list=PLdd0Sm28ghTJIz2cCPqHZ2sPj3wDPJFtX

By: gtronsistem

gtronsistem — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:20:00 +0000

yes we are all in decay, but TRYing to make things better in human systems that are clearly ridiculous and harmful to individuals, peace, other creatures, oneself, is not a crime against your logic.
if you accept that there’s no solving it, you get hedonism. hey, it’s all going to hell in a handbasket! grab a printed-gun and jump in!also, he’s one of the more respected, but he’s not really saying much – he’s just ranting with this dismissive ‘how could you not know this?!’ tone, which by minute 49 has wiped out ones attention, and you miss the point of his denouement. which is, for those who didn’t get to it, not really much.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:14:00 +0000

Screw it, I went ahead and put it on SoundCloud and made it downloadable fer christ’s sake….

Get it here:
https://soundcloud.com/cowicide/bruce-sterling-closing-remarks

Haven’t they ever heard of portable mp3 players? sheesh…

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:53:00 +0000

http://i.imgur.com/KyIQji3.gif

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:23:00 +0000

Why, oh why didn’t they allow a download of the mp3 from SoundCloud?

Here… I’ll disrupt this inconvenience for those who want to put this on an iPod or whatever…

~~Downloadable link~~ edit: they already broke it… :(

Hopefully it’ll keep working…

By: Timothy Moorehead

Timothy Moorehead — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:23:00 +0000

ALSO; re: SXSW 2013…JASH videos. The one that’s 5:01 is excellent. Uh, attempting a link was terrible. JASH. comedy.

By: Timothy Moorehead

Timothy Moorehead — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:19:00 +0000

I look forward to Bruce’s closing rants (eloquent ramblings) every year for years now. It’s like a real holy day when I get a hold of the latest on mp3.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:07:00 +0000

I’ll get a tablet someday. For now . . . well, I’m a producer, not a consumer. I’m old fashioned enough to prefer a desktop (Linux!). One with a big-ass full-width keyboard and two HD monitors and gear for scanning and digitizing old meida.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:03:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this.

I read @jonl’s live tweet . . . still haven’t made the time to listen to bruces actual speech.

By: Dr. Chronobiologist

Dr. Chronobiologist — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:13:00 +0000

Be fierce, eat what you kill. Buy an Android tablet and
$ sudo cd /; rm -rf #THIS IS A JOKE, DO NOT DO THIS
your Linux desktop today!