Pattern Recognition – Chapter 23: Dickheads The rain has stopped but drops still fall from ledges and awnings, beading on the nylon of her new Rickson’s. Absently she reaches to touch the place where the tape should be, but it isn’t there. No hole. History erased via substitution of an identical object. Pattern Recognition – […]
Read more "Buzz Rickson's"Quote from Pattern Recogniton – Chapter 6: The Match Factory: “Of course,” he [Bigend] says, “we have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparnts had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural […]
Read more "Cayce & Bigend talk about History and the Future"Attention Conversation Notice: SPOILERS! Big giant ones. Also, not a review – though it may contain traces of one. The author reserves the right to wax lyrical, reminisce, draw inappropriate comparisons between his own life and that of Gibson’s protagonists and slowly wander back to the subject at hand. Highly dependant on the reader having […]
Read more "Reflections on Zero History"(Caching this important piece here for posterity..) Googles Earth By WILLIAM GIBSON I actually think most people dont want Google to answer their questions, said the search giants chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. Do we really desire Google […]
Read more "Gibson on Google"Being an irregular round-up post featuring quotes from the awesome recent writings from the Top Secret: TechGonzo Official List of Allies. The Sarah Connor Chronicles: “Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point” by Wolven The beauty of this show is in the intricate, subtle interplay of the characters–human and cyborg/machine–and how what they learn, […]
Read more "Awesome shit my friends said"Via Chairman Bruce comes this tale of tech woes; oh noes, b-loggin’ is not so hip no moar with, you know, teh_kidz AND TWITTER NEVER WILL BE! This article (and the many before like it) hits a nerve with me, in that it perpuates a lot of ideas that I’m sick of hearing. In short, I TAKE […]
Read more "attn: media – your analysis of teen tech trends is not valid"The population now lacks a reason to believe that ‘history’ is ‘progressing’ in any particular direction, so a mix-and-match, cut-up, splice-up techno-aesthetic makes sense. — Matrix Online. Which is pretty much up there with the Alan Moore quote from Steampunk Magazine. Quotes like this are exactly why I still want to have bruces mind babies. […]
Read more "Bruce Sterling – no more history, progress is a dead idea?"I’m super-psyched to announce I’m one of the author’s for the latest spin-off from the Doktor Sleepless comic, http://grinding.be. It’s a group blog Warren’s setup to document Grinder culture. As he says: Imagine: you want to be a superconnected, modified, new kind of human, and you consider your own body to be a work in […]
Read more "Grinder group blog – grinding.be"Charlie does a longish reading from Halting State: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-1670032014558458068&hl=en Highlights: First few mins: he talks about how technology seamless weaves itself into society as it develops ~44 mins: the timing of such a novel. that four years ago noone would have got it at all and in two years time it’ll be blaze – mundane […]
Read more "Stross reads from Halting State (plus Q’n’A)"from (NSFW) SuicideGirls The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis … One of the few people in music who seem to me to be really leaning into the future right now is Burial, the reclusive lofi dubstep wizard whose work conjures fantastic images of a drowned London and haunted electronics. He’s doing his bit to save […]
Read more "..The Sunday Hangover with Warren Ellis (SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 2007).."
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 