The Adventures of Cindy Li

SXSW 2006: Bruce Sterling

March 14 , 2006

Bruce Sterling

Credit: Jeremy Keith/Adactio.com

This is the largest audience. No you cannot come to my house.
This year no gophers. No corporate sponsorship…. so sorry no
The tech panels are no longer personal and intimate.

This is the year of web 2.0.

This is the hottest time of the water… blood in the water.. google is buying. When there is a 2.0 bust then you can come to my house. Ganu had the wrong name ganooze….

Wiki is like nothing else.

Collaborative web filters are scary things.
The monopolistic choke hold the gates are down.
Windows live… windows live after 10 years..
It amazes me to see a burst of creativity. If you got the sxsw book for the city of Austin.. leads all these non gov’t groups. The creative director page.

As you may or may not know…

I spend a lot of time in Europe looking at America outside and sees the world. Spread of wireless in London, broadband in Serbia. They are run by criminals. Are people in DC drinking their own bath water.. They have forgot how to build things. They are monetizing the web.

When you actually ignore reality.

The payback is a bitch brother.. cause I am a science fiction writer. A science fiction book.. visionaries and .. came out last week. This is not a harry potter book. Its got 21st stuff… I am into the 21st cafe. Denelo Keish? Slavanka Draculitch?.. goes by Schwartz (Croatian writer) People ask if I have moved to Belgrade.. some of my shoes are there. I never stay long enough to do permanent.

National borders are like speed bumps.

If I look over national borders… its depressing.. America is loosing its Americann cache.. globalization. Mostly at war w/its reality. Americans look different. Loud boisterous. Americans are fat… and they are scarily fat. Like they are about to pop. US dollar is low… Do you really believe Adam and Eve rode back on dinosaurs? Is that objective reality?  The generals and the armies.. films about that? Other countries are supposed to watch and be entertained. As I once tool.. zorron, prime minister.. before he was shot dead, the Balkans have so much future they have to export. Slovenia.. farthest away.. its dull harmless little place like Iowa. They are so into Serbiann truthyness. Forgive them some of that.. they didn’t blow themselves up.

Port scandal.. Dubai..

they have money. They have the biggest skyscraper.
They can get on Arab TV.. and the world sits on its chair .. how many mosks have these people blown up. No one even counts.  Recently they found a video tape of 8 being killed never mind the thousands.. The guys that did it are in churches.. monasteries hiding. Everyone lives in shadow. No history can be written.  China/India.. the healthiest ...

(sorry he’s just a stream of consciousness talking)