Bruce Sterling: The Hypersurface of this Decade

Simultaneously hilarious and mind-expanding (one of my favorite combinations).

Freedom is just another word for nothing! There is no dead weight in my urban spatiality. No clotted semiotics, cajoling me to behave in the stereotyped haute-bourgeois manner that Deirdre once used to stifle me.

Dematerialisation is defined by its interfaces. That which was product will become a service. That which was a service will accelerate at warp speed toward de-monetisation on the Path-to-Free. So this is not so much a post-divorce flat as a vibrant zone of interactive transaction.

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Signs of spring in the office

The timer that controls the vivarium lights is set to mimic day length at 15 degrees north. Days have been getting longer and at least one of the orchids is responding – the Maxillaria variabilis. I noticed the bloom in the orchid viv and went looking in the big viv – a blossom there too! Sadly, no activity in the yard; everything is under between 2 inches and 4 feet (we’ve had a lot of wind) of the white stuff.

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