The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014
The annual round-up.
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Omni Reboot | THE LANDLINE
Omni returns with a Bruce Sterling short story that marries alternative history and satire with a dash of digital preservation.
Go ahead, just wait a year, or two years, or maybe five years. Then try to find this, later. There will be no sign of this website, because it’s just made of pixels. No remains of the machine that you read it with, either.
The Ecuadorian Library by Bruce Sterling
A good ol’ fashioned rant.
From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter, a short story by Bruce Sterling
H.P. Lovecraft meets James Bridle in this great little story commissioned by the Institute For The Future.
An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
Bruce Sterling writes about the New Aesthetic in an article that’s half manifesto and half critique.
Grab a cup of tea or hit your “read it later” bookmarklet of choice for this one—it’s a lengthy but worthwhile read.