An interesting thread on Slashdot addresses a Globe and Mail article that speculates that sf might be coming to an unceremonious end like other historically situated literary genres. I would agree that golden age sf is perhaps on the decline, slowly being replaced by the likes of fantasy disguised as sf (Star Trek, Star Wars, [...]
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Wired Wednesday
Wired mag has an excellent article about the staying power of Apple by Bradford DeLong, “So Much for Economic Principle.” DeLong speculates that Apple, despite their 5% market share, will continue to innovate into the forseeable future. Good news. In the same issue, Bruce Sterling laments that fact that the Bush White House has lost [...]
/. and Sterling
Check out Slashdot’s 1999 interview with Bruce Sterling. Here are some tidbits: Question: Do you believe that conscientious consumerism is going to be sufficient to avert continued environmental destruction? Sterling: No, no, you’re not getting it yet — you’ve got to go deeper than that. If you have to be “conscientious” about it, that means [...]
