10 Bruce Sterling Quotes on Technology

Bruce Sterling quotes on technology

1. Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?

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.

8. 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.

12. Googling is international. It's not just restricted to cranky Republicans who couldn't erase e-mail in their PROFS (Professional Office System). That's going to have more of an effect. It's difficult to escape a tragedy in your life that's not your own fault.

13. Hack the hardware, not the Constitution.

14. Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

17. I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

20. I noticed that people are doing a lot of 'googling' before a first date nowadays - this represents the real trend. Poindexter's doing this and DARPA allowed him to do it for the propaganda that someone's serious about cyberwar someplace.

21. I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

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