Bruce Sterling returns again to the WELL's public "Inkwell" conference for his annual state-of-the-year public interview, in which anyone can join in. It's off to a rollicking start, with plenty of chewy, sometimes gnomic Sterlingian pronouncements:
— Read the restSome people still think that there's an "Islamo-fascist tyranny"
somewhere that hates our freedoms and can organize Islam-dom into a
coherent fascist state… There's just no way.
David Weinberger is conducting a public interview on the WELL's Inkwell conference about his new book Everything is Miscellaneous. I was really excited by this book, which explains how the Internet is exposing and undermining the arbitrary categories we use for knowledge, social organization, and employment. — Read the rest
Neil Gaiman's back in the hotseat on the WELL's public interview conference, Inkwell.vue. The interview is world-readable, and non-WELL-members can send their comments and questions in.
The occassion is the launch of Fragile Things, Neil's new, stupendous short story collection. — Read the rest
Bruce Sterling's kicked off his annual state-of-the-world, take-all-comers interview on the WELL's Inkwell conference, which is open to the public — as usual, he's fizzing with outrageous brilliance:
— Read the restI don't think today's rich and powerful "run the show" — in the sense
that there used to be a coherent show and it used to be runnable.
In what has become an annual tradition, Bruce Sterling is conducting a world-readable discussion on one of the WELL's public discussion boards. Watching Bruce hold forth on design, geopolitics and science fiction is exhilarating and exhausting, and a must-read.
— Read the rest[W]hat if the Chinese
just
go about their own booming business?
Bruce Sterling is conducting his annual "state of the world" interview on the WELL's public "Inkwell" conference — you can read along and send questions to Jon Lebkowsky, the moderator, for Bruce to answer.
— Read the restWell, for two years I've been trying to write a science fiction novel
about "ubiquitous computation."
Dan Gillmor is being publicly interviewed on the WELL about his fantasic "Journalism 3.0" manifesto, We the Media. All comers welcome.
— Read the restOhmyNews is one of the most important new-media experiments anywhere
in the world. It was the right publication at the right time.
Bruce Sterling's doing a virtual public interview on the WELL this week about his new technothriller, The Zenith Angle. I really liked this — the blurb I sent Bruce went "Sterling has his fingers on about a hundred different pulses in this book, which vibrates with fantastic in-jokes and insights from Bollywood to dot-bomb, from mil-spec gear-pigs to earnest cybercops. — Read the rest
Bruce Sterling's just posted a doozy about Mars exploration in the interview he's doing on the WELL:
— Read the restI'll believe in people settling Mars at about the
same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert.
The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times
as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times
cheaper and easier to reach.
Bruce Sterling's doing a public interview on The WELL — it's just been running for a day or so, and it's already accumulating some primo SterlingRants:
— Read the restSpammers are not monsters ten feet tall. Spammers are vermin.
If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as
spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury.
I'm interviewing Charlie Stross for the WELL's inkwell.vue conference for the next two weeks or so — it's free to read, and you can ask questions by emailing me and I'll post 'em.
— Read the restI suppose you could say my second writing career dates to about 1998.
Kelly Link, the brilliant short-story author (her collection, "Stranger Things Happen," is absolutely required reading — I even got a spare copy to loan to co-workers), is being interviewed by her talented husband, Gavin Grant, on the WELL's public conference.
Charlie "Hugo Nominee" Stross and I are having a two-week-long discussion on the WELL's public Inkwell.vue conference, in honor of the publication of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Even if you don't have a WELL account, you can join in by emailing questions to Charlie. — Read the rest
Another great public interview on the WELL's public Inkwell conference starts today: Bruce Sterling is being interviewed about his new book, "Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years," which is a fantastic read that puts previous attempts at this kind of futurism, [cough Toffler cough] to shame:
— Read the restI knew a long time ago that when the
turn of the millennium came around I
would be a middle-aged guy.
Ellen Datlow is being interviewed by Jack Womack in the WELL's public Inkwell conference. Ellen is a legendary science fiction editor: as fiction editor for Omni, she presided over the first (and, so far, the only) sf market that circulated over a million copies a month; her Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Anthologies (co-edited with Terri Windling) are brilliant tours of trends in top-rate fantasy; her other anthology projects, like the ground-breaking Alien Sex, are classics decades after their publication. — Read the rest
Howard Rheingold is being interviewed in the WELL's public conference about his book SmartMobs. Nice stuff.
— Read the restThe FCC was set up to regulate the spectrum on behalf of its owners — the
citizens. It happened in the wake of the Titanic disaster, where
"interference" was an issue.
Live coverage from this year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in San Francisco, from the WELL's public conference:
(Thanks, Jonl!
Steven "Emergence" Johnson interviewed in the WELL's public conference:
— Read the restThe emergent systems that I talk about in the book are systems that
are made of many lower-level constituent parts, each of which follows
relatively simple rules of interaction and lacks an awareness of the
overall state of the system.
Bruce Sterling's doing a public ongoing interview on the WELL.
— Read the restYou wanna read a real futurist, check out this blurb
I just wrote for Jules Verne's latest English-language
translation, INVASION OF THE SEA."Mr Verne's latest techno-thriller boldly confronts the menace of
Islamic terrorism.
Tor Senior Editor Patrick "Electrolite blog" Nielsen Hayden interviews John M. "The Last Hot Time" Ford in the WELL's public conferences. Link Discuss
