Tag : Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling's closing keynote at SXSW was typically fiery and inspirational. But whereas last year's felt like a war cry, this year there was a strain of hope in his words.

And he summed it up this way:  

Be passionate about what you do, because now is a pretty awesome time.

At SXSWi, I was expecting to be sold the shiny digital future, but what I found was something stranger and unsettling, somewhere fragmented, confused. Is the web getting a bit existential?

After its angry adolescence, the web is growing up and beginning to realise that its parents possibly aren’t total bellends. To bludgeon the metaphor, you could say that after totaling the car, smashing up the house and pissing in the pool, the web and its pilgrims are expressing a growing After its angry adolescence, the web is growing up and beginning to realise that its parents possibly aren’t total bellends. To bludgeon the metaphor, you could say that after totaling the car, smashing up the house and pissing in the pool, the web and its pilgrims are expressing a growing awareness fear of the consequences of all this youthful abandon. fear of the consequences of all this youthful abandon.