6 Bruce Sterling Quotes on Society

Bruce Sterling quotes on society

5. 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.

28. I've heard people speculate that the growing American vogue for murder-suicides in the workplace has a certain tinge of the apocalypse.

39. It's more a symptom of increasing class and income differentiation. The ultra-rich may be feeding roses and champagne to their racehorses, but that doesn't mean we're on the brink of an apocalypse.

51. The common population would stand aghast as these people did one another in. It would not stop once the surveillance mechanism was there. It would eat generation after generation of KGB members until it decapitated and lobotomized the entire population.

53. The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

58. War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.