Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre. Read full biography of Bruce Sterling →
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... →
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If... →
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large... →
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide... →
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.
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't... →
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters... →
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... →
You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from... →
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre.