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alcei_sterling.note

US author Bruce Sterling on why he joined ALCEI (Electronic Frontiers Italy)

cfp_94_sterling.speech

Bruce Sterling's renarks at Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference IV, Chicago, Mar. 26, 1994, on whether or not threats to privacy posed by computerization are for real or not. Classic quote: "I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat raised by this panel. And I don't. One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies (of whatever character, political or economic) that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire."

comp_game_designers.article

Bruce Sterling's "The Wonderful Power of Storytelling", from the Computer Game Developers Conference, March 1991, San Jose CA.

crypto_conf_keynote.speech

Bruce Sterling's keynote address from Cryptography Conference, Sept. 1993, on cryptography's "coming of age".

cyberpunk_library.biblio

"Bruce Sterling's Idea of What Every Well-Appointed 'Cyberpunk SF' Library Collection Should Possess (circa August 1996)

cyberview_91.report

Bruce Sterlings conference report on the CyberView (SummerCon) 1991 hacker convention.

free_as_air.speech

"Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge", Bruce Sterling Speech to the Library Information Technology Association June 1992, San Francisco CA. Main premise: "The nature of our society strongly affects the nature of our technology."

gurps_labor_lost.article

Bruce Sterling's account of the US Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games, and its aftermath.

paradigms_workshop_sterling.lexicon

Bruce Sterling's "A Workshop Lexicon" The 'Paragons' Iteration", from from PARAGONS: TWELVE MASTER SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS PLY THEIR CRAFT. Sterling says of it, "This lexicon is not a guide to scholarship. The Workshop Lexicon is a guide (of sorts) for down-and-dirty hairy-knuckled sci-fi writers, the kind of ambitious subliterate guttersnipes who actually write and sell professional genre material. It's rough, rollicking, rule-of-thumb stuff suitable for shouting aloud while pounding the table.

sterling.biblio

Bruce Sterling bibliography.

sterling_gibson_nas.speeches

Speeches on networking and the future by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, National Academy of Sciences Convocation on Technology and Education, Washington D. C., May 10, 1993

sterling_hstf.testimony

Testimony of Bruce Sterling, on the "National Research and Education Network" before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Washington DC, April 29, 1993. Excerpt: "...However, it's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. Today I'd like to mention two or three trifling problems that have come up that were not entirely obvious from the perspective of the early 1990s." Sterlings novel [pun intended] testimony is presented as the comments of a hypothetical NII worker from the 21st Century. This is probably the first time science fiction has been presented as testimony to a Congressional hearing.

virtual_city_sterling.speech

Speech at Rice Design Alliance: "The Virtual City", Houston, Texas, March 2, 1994, by Bruce Sterling. A fascinating exploration of the relationship between communications technology and urbanization, culminating in a look at how virtual reality may be used for future urban planning and architecture.

virtual_war.article

_Wired_ article on "virtual war" - the use of "virtual reality" in war simulation, and, eventually, actual combat. By Bruce Sterling.

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Catscan_columns/

Directory containing Sterling's columns for _Catscan_

Dead_Media_Project/

Directory of information from Bruce Sterling's Dead Media Project, a collaborative effort to document all known unsupported and extinct media, from Nazi submarine spy communications systems to children's ViewMaster toys to dinosauric computer equipment.

FSF_columns/

Directory containing Sterling's columns for _Fantasy_&_Science_ _Fiction_Magazine_

Hacker_Crackdown/

Excellent book, _The_Hacker_Crackdown:_Law_&_Order_on_ _the_Electronic_Frontier_ (several formats available in this directory)

Interzone_columns/

Directory containing Sterling's columns for _Interzone_

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