{"id":724,"date":"2004-01-06T12:55:28","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T16:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/06\/bruce-sterling-interview\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:59:35","slug":"bruce-sterling-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/06\/bruce-sterling-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Small World After All…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of the Well’s<\/A> biggest stars, at least in the geek subcultural hierarchy, get together for Reason<\/I> as Mike Godwin interviews Bruce Sterling<\/A>. (In the interest of accuracy, I don’t think ‘bruces’ really spends that much time on the Well anymore; at least he had pretty low visibility when I was a regular member a few years back.) Addendum<\/B>: Look’s like he’s hanging out on the Well right now<\/A>, at least for a while.<\/p>\n

I’ve been a fan of Sterling’s social-satire-disguised-as-SF for years, and thought The Hacker Crackdown<\/I> was one of the first books that got the political and cultural implications of hacker culture right (though I said so in cringe-inducing tones<\/a>, if you look all the way down.) So when PW<\/I> asked me if I wanted to review his most recent non-fiction book, Tomorrow Now<\/I><\/A>, I jumped at the chance, and I’m hoping the paperback blurbs the part where I called it “a fun hybrid of Robert Kaplan and Faith Popcorn.”<\/p>\n

My favorite aphoristic quote from the interview: “Fanatical gestures capture the public’s imagination, but they’re just not as important to people’s lives as massive economic arrangements.” But his quickie analysis of Jules Verne<\/A> is interesting, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two of the Well’s biggest stars, at least in the geek subcultural hierarchy, get together for Reason as Mike Godwin interviews Bruce Sterling. (In the interest of accuracy, I don’t think ‘bruces’ really spends that much time on the Well anymore; at least he had pretty low visibility when I was a regular member a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}