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Bruce Sterling: the joy and danger of the future

It’s a beautiful sunny day, I’m full of cold and I’m distracting myself by reading commentary on NEXT 13 for my work on the conference blog. The talk that seems to have had the most impact – despite being the shortest – was Bruce Sterling’s. It was noticable for both its joy in the possibilities of the future and its skepticism about so much of the way it’s structured right now.

Worth a watch, if you have 15 minutes this lunchtime:

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