It’s True

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Scott Jennings| 7 Comments

Bruce Sterling lays down the funk.

95% of the net is machine generated robbery and gibberish. Spam. Imagine if every time you turned on your TV someone tried to rob you. Or you go to the cinema and all the people are pickpockets.

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  • Nicademus

    alright………

    Maybe I’m fucktarded, but can someone lay out the narrative thread that takes that speech from the beginning to end. He lost me during at least five transitions.

  • JHB

    An interesting, if somewhat schizophrenic read. The icing on the cake for me was finding out that Yochai Benkler’s book is available as a free pdf.

  • http://azspot.net naum

    It flows a lot better in audio format.

    Benkler’s book is cool, but thought it was funny Sterling’s remarks on how not too many people have stumbled across even though it’s free. Good read, but a bit dense in portions…

  • http://vengeance.parryfive.com Axecleaver

    That was incredibly difficult to follow in written format. Thanks for the audio link.

  • Aufero

    Thanks for the audio link, the talk was much more comprehensible that way.

    I stopped reading Sterling’s stuff after he and Gibson wrote a “novel” together that consisted of a few sample chapters and a page of incoherent notes. This talk is a lot like that book.

  • Nyght

    I guess he not watching much commercial TV these days.

    “Imagine if every time you turned on your TV someone tried to rob you.”

    Ah, they do.

  • Walter Yarbrough