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By: Bruce Sterling knows where his towel is | The Celsius1414 Journal

Bruce Sterling knows where his towel is | The Celsius1414 Journal — Sat, 07 May 2011 18:18:22 +0000

[...] Bruce Sterling’s keynote at the Austin Game Developer’s Conference. Full transcript. Via /. Bruce Sterling On Gaming in 2043 This entry was posted in Entertainment, Technology and [...]

By: Nuri Nurbachschs Beitrag zur Open data! Open rules?-Blogparade | twenty twenty

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:43:56 +0000

[...] verfasse – ist mir bewusst, vielen Dank. Spielt einfach mit, ok? Bruce Sterling hat sogar einen ganzen Vortrag gehalten, als ob er ein Besucher aus der Zukunft wäre. Da werde ich doch wohl noch Auszüge aus [...]

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One Empty Space: The Art of Kevin Ward » Link Cloud 9-24-08 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:57:48 +0000

[...] Bruce Sterling on games [...]

By: Morgan Ramsay

Morgan Ramsay — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:35:25 +0000

Hrm, after reading this speech again, I have a question:

The reason Bruce Sterling couldn’t make it is because, in the year 2043, Bruce Sterling is 89 years old.

How is that a valid reason? Why wasn’t the Bruce Sterling of 2008 in attendance? Did the event planner overstep their bounds in trying to secure a speaker from the future? Something’s really wrong here…

The only way to get ahead of them is to redefine yourselves as something that is not “computer entertainment.”

Oh, oh, I’m already doing that. *wink*wink*

By: Raph

Raph — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:03:02 +0000

Bruce apparently gave the actual text to Flurb, Rudy Rucker’s online zine.

http://www.flurb.net/6/6sterling.htm

So that one probably has fewer typos and is a tad more complete!

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piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged » ruff linkage 200838 — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:47:29 +0000

[...] AGDC: Bruce Sterling keynote – "So my PC is like a towel. Cheap and old and the dullest thing in the world, I have always had one. “2008, computer pioneers, they still think computers are exciting!” They don’t get that computers in 2043 are like brick, forks, toothbrushes, towels." odd, but funny. [...]

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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:39:55 +0000

[...] the whole transcript here. Technology — Tags: bruce sterling, cloud computing, futre of games, qbit, quantum, science [...]

By: bplusd » Blog Archive » Bruce Sterling on the computer of 2043

bplusd » Blog Archive » Bruce Sterling on the computer of 2043 — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:53:21 +0000

[...] From Bruce Sterling’s 2008 Austin Game Developers Conference keynote. [...]

By: Raph

Raph — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:13:44 +0000

Slashdotting incoming…!

By: Celsius1414

Celsius1414 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:21:12 +0000

@Raph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

> A **greeble** or **nurnie** is a small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object to add visual interest to a surface or object, particularly in movie special effects. They serve no real purpose other than to add complexity to the object, and cause the flow of the eye over the surface of the object to be interrupted, usually giving the impression of increased size.

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> An early physical example of their application was in the production of the spaceships in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) where they were called **”wiggets”**. Another first recorded use of the term was by those working on the special effects for Star Wars – the group who would later become Industrial Light and Magic. They also described this design method as “guts on the outside”.

Nernie I think is another name for a greeble.