Arcfinity: Author announcement: Bruce Sterling kicks off Arc 1.1

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“Visionaries, prophets and seers are common to all mankind,” says Bruce Sterling, “but only societies with science can breed futurists.”

Arc is a magazine about the future, but we’re still working out what that means. So we asked one of Sterling, one of science fiction’s more astute writers…

The capacity to learn from others is one of the traits that have made humans such a global success story. Relying on it too much, however, could have contributed to the demise of past populations, such as the Maya of southern Mexico in the eighth and ninth centuries and Norse settlers in…

Notes on the Tribe Of The Strange: Conformists may kill civilizations