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• But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

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  People, Perspective, Victory

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• It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.

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  Dubai, Years, Two

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• There's no victory-condition for being human.

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  Victory, Being Human, Humans

  "Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions". entertainment.slashdot.org. December 23, 2013.

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• 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?

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  Ideas, Environmental, Parks

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• I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

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  Clouds, September 11, Age

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• One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

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  Madness, Distraction

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• 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.

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  War, Land, Hats

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• A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.

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  Bollywood, Dallas, Pay

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• 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?!?

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  Reign, Saws, Corny

  "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole". Talk at Long Now Foundation, 2004.

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• The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

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  Ruins, Century, 21st Century

  "Derelict power plants become Luc Besson's eurocinema wonderland" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. May 16, 2008.

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• The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

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  Children, Fun, Real

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• (He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

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  Men, Finals, Purpose

  Bruce Sterling (2014). “Schismatrix Plus”, p.224, Open Road Media

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• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

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  War, Clouds, Mushrooms

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• I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

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  Distance, Writing, Intellectual

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• 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.

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  Morning, Philosophical, Loss

  "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole". Talk at Long Now Foundation, 2004.

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• Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

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  Stupid, Profound, Computer

  1992 The Hacker Crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier.

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

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  Unwritten

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• Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

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  Home, Ignorance, Literature

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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

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  Writing, Research, Fiction And Nonfiction

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Song, Writing, Cynical

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

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  Success, Jobs, People

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• If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

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  Military, World, Politics

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• Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

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  Mirrors, Cyberspace

  1993 National Academy of Sciences Convocationon Technology and Education,Washington DC,10 May.

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• Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

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  Latin, Dark, Past

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• "Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

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  Design, Inquiry, Stories

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