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Bruce Sterling Biography

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.

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Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

Become, Belief, People, Smooth, Spiky, Ull

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Larger, Literature, Part, Small Parts, Socially, Trends

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

People, Guy, Political, Music, Pop

The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

Future, Unsearched, Unwritten

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Chain, Cutting, Data, Shadow, Starting Over, Tributaries

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

Futures, Passing, Past, Year, Years

In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident.

Fall, Innocent, Party, Society, Sums

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Fiction And Nonfiction, Paid, Pleasant, Research, Write, Writing

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

Cynical, Forever, Saying, Song, Stay, Writing

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

Civilization, Good Times, Human, Radically, System, Would Be

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

David, Hop, Needs, Technological, Thinking, Trends

As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute. The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up. These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.

Becoming, Loss, Morning, People, Philosophical

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

Amusement Parks, Barrier, Disaster, Environmental, Ideas, Reef

Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

Done, Eye, Eyes, Going Away, Hard, Thinking

Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

Ass, Casinos, Class, Lose, Silly, Vegas

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

Already, Happened, Kind, Past

Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

Big, Bigs, Competence, Government, Realizing

Find a client and get a job.

Client, Clients, Job, Jobs

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Cities, Collapse, Disasters, East Berlin, Europe, Urban

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

Complex, Entertainer, Entertainers, Entertainment, Military

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