{"id":1160,"date":"2008-04-16T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/04\/bruce_sterling_on_the_future_o\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T16:29:15","slug":"bruce_sterling_on_the_future_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/bruce_sterling_on_the_future_o.php","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Sterling on the future of everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I seem to be on a &#8221;&#8217;technology and society&#8221; kick this week, I might as well point to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/769193\">this fascinating keynote<\/a> (at least to me) by science fiction author Bruce Sterling. Speaking to a <a href=\"http:\/\/interface.fh-potsdam.de\/innoforum\/english\/index.php\">conference of interface and interaction design professionals<\/a>, Sterling deflates a whole series of common assumptions about the future of digital technology in our lives (sentient humanoid robots, direct computer-brain interfaces), and suggests a future that&#8217;s both more plausible, and more brain-bending.<\/p>\n<p>For example, what if <i>everything<\/i> around you had a digital tag, a connection to the network, and a GPS location capability (we&#8217;re getting closer to that every day)? And what could such an environment provide for its citizens and require of its designers?<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=769193&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"showAll\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=769193&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=\" \/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/769193\/l:embed_769193\">Bruce Sterling<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/user378630\/l:embed_769193\">Innovationsforum<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/l:embed_769193\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I seem to be on a &#8221;&#8217;technology and society&#8221; kick this week, I might as well point to this fascinating keynote (at least to me) by science fiction author Bruce Sterling. Speaking to a conference of interface and interaction design professionals, Sterling deflates a whole series of common assumptions about the future of digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}