{"id":212,"date":"2006-03-18T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2006-03-18T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T17:51:34","slug":"bruce-sterling-in-13-gulps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Sterling in 13 gulps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year Bruce Sterling gives a talk (well, a rant) at SXSW, and this year’s is a real barn-burner. The whole thing is available for download<\/a> (along with quite a few other recordings of panels), and it’s really worth listening and then listening again to the whole 48 minutes. That’s a pretty tall order for people who don’t have mp3 players grafted into their lives, and long commutes or walks or whatever in which to multitask.<\/p>\n

To give you reasons to download the whole thing, I’ve made a bunch of extracts of especially powerful bits, most of them pretty short:<\/p>\n

American industrial policy<\/a> 0:12
\nbroadband in Serbia<\/a> 0:21
\ntechnical backwardness<\/a> 0:55
\nthe last reels of Gone With the Wind<\/a> 1:10
\non Creationism<\/a> 0:50
\nthe ports scandal<\/a> 0:25
\nwhere are Mladic and Karadzic?<\/a> 0:48
\nquoting Warren Ellis<\/a> 1:00
\non spimes<\/a> 6:00
\nthe Semantic Web<\/a> 2:20
\nthe people tire…<\/a> 0:20
\nEvil has a face<\/a> 1:20
\nreading part of Sandberg’s The People Yes<\/a> 2:40\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is heady stuff, and his reading of Sandberg (which ended the talk –I mean, how could you follow that<\/i>?) makes the point pretty persuasively that hearing a poem is an essential complement to reading a poem silently. See also Jon Lebkowsky’s take<\/a> at WorldChanging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year Bruce Sterling gives a talk (well, a rant) at SXSW, and this year’s is a real barn-burner. The whole thing is available for download (along with quite a few other recordings of panels), and it’s really worth listening and then listening again to the whole 48 minutes. That’s a pretty tall order for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}