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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic Drilling Quickly and Deeply in the Conversation Big Ideas 9 years, 5 months ago
*I’m liking this printable ice-igloo scheme. If you’re gonna “melt rock,” ice is a kind of rock.
https://www.cnet.com/news/3d-printable-ice-house-could-be-our-home-on-mars/
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Bruce Sterling changed their profile picture 9 years, 5 months ago
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic Gengineered Superfood? Cloned meat? in the Conversation
But what will we eat? 10 years, 5 months agoNew work from the merry pranksters at NextNature.Org.
https://www.nextnature.net/product/the-in-vitro-meat-cookbook/
The In Vitro Meat Cookbook
Using the format of the cookbook as a storytelling medium, the In Vitro Meat Cookbook is a visually stunning exploration of the new “food cultures” lab-grown meat might create. This book app…[Read more] -
Bruce Sterling replied to the topic If we can become superhumans, what about our animals? in the Conversation Questionspace 10 years, 6 months ago
I like this issue of animals as proper subjects of high technology. I often use animals in science fiction thought experiments.
Whenever people talk about the prospect of the “superhuman,” they commonly get vague, exalted, metaphysical and transcendent. That’s because what really interests them about that prospect is the exciting idea of a…[Read more]
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Bruce Sterling changed their profile picture 10 years, 6 months ago
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Bruce Sterling started the topic The Internet of Things in the Conversation Big Ideas 10 years, 10 months ago
Ubiquitous computing and the “internet of things” have long been a hang-up of mine. Recently I started a Tumblr that I’m using as a scrapbook of interesting developments there. I’m especially interested in the domestic Internet of Things, the Internet of Things as a form of household living. That’s why the Tumblr is called “Wolf in Living Ro…[Read more]
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Bruce Sterling started the topic Carbyne, the strongest possible arrangement of atoms in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 5 months ago
*Looks like somebody just invented the long-sought space elevator cable.
*If you’re into new materials in industry, this carbyne stuff is quite alarming. Carbyne makes diamond, buckminsterfullerene, and even graphene all look like weak sisters. Carbyne is made of pure carbon, one of the commonest of elements, and it’s simply the strongest…[Read more]
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic Very Long Term Archival of the Cultural, Scientific, and Biological Record in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 5 months ago
*My. I happen to be quite the long-term fan of this topic, and would be keen to help you out, if I can find the, uh, time.
*Here’s an excerpt from a Long Now speech I gave 13 years ago.
https://blog.longnow.org/02008/08/03/bruce-sterlings-sharp-warning-8-years-later/
Our future equivalents in a Long Now culture would probably be more…[Read more]
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic Up-Cycled 3D Printing Materials and PROMPT in the Conversation Inspiration 11 years, 5 months ago
*On the subject of fabrication, I think I may actually *need* one of these DIWire wire-bending Maker gizmos. I just saw one in action, and I’ve got uses for one.
https://blog.digitalculture.asu.edu/?q=node/217
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic A Billion Year Society in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 5 months ago
I wouldn’t be betting on our species being one of the longer-lived varieties, but it’s quite an interesting challenge to think of monuments and artifacts deliberately built to last a billion years. Sort of a Long Now Foundation library for anybody who dropped by. It’s like a SETI message sent through time, rather than space.
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Bruce Sterling started the topic The Prehearsal Pocket Guide in the Conversation Inspiration 11 years, 6 months ago
*Experiential futurism. A checklist. So good I had to steal all of it.
*I could teach a hell of a design-school class with this.
https://lib.fo.am/resilients/prehearsal_pocket_guide
Prehearsal Pocket Guide
By Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney
This is a step-by-step guide to holding prehearsals for home futurists, distributed collectives and…[Read more]
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic Contemporary Skyscraper Construction in the Conversation Tall Tower 11 years, 6 months ago
*Layered metal-graphene alloys. Imagine being cozy in your twelve-million ton Tall Tower, and here comes some Korean guy who says, “hey, my tower only weights one million tons and is taller than yours.”
*I hate to think of the spectacularly lethal knives and chainsaws one could make from a dreadful substance like…[Read more]
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic A Hotel in Antarctica in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 6 months ago
*Well, you could try the opposite tack and turn Antarctica into a moralizing communal utopia. Those tend to lack the staying-power of Las Vegas, though.
*Nice one with the cranks jumping the gun, here.
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic Contemporary Skyscraper Construction in the Conversation Tall Tower 11 years, 6 months ago
*Not a lot of hard-edged construction detail here, but those are pretty hard to beat for clean, fun skyscraper-philia.
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic A Hotel in Antarctica in the Conversation Big Ideas 11 years, 6 months ago
Well, it may be a bit cyberpunk of me, but I’d be recommending a few lucrative offshored crime activities. Sex tourism, medical tourism, light decriminalized narcotics, hobbyist firearms, the usual in today’s tourist trade.
Not that they’re “crimes” in your jurisdiction, or anything; what happens in Vegas stays in Antarctica.
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic The Tall PowerTower in the Conversation Tall Tower 11 years, 7 months ago
“The energy comes from Earth’s rotation, since that sustains the magnetosphere, which induces the electric potential.”
*What a beautiful thing. It has a Jules Verne baroque elegance.
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic Ecosystem is not broken… in the Conversation The Moonshot Ecosystem 11 years, 9 months ago
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Bruce Sterling replied to the topic Here's the premise: in the Conversation Remote Stereolunagraphy 11 years, 9 months ago
https://www.3ders.org/articles/20130528-3d-printer-headed-to-space-station-in-august-2014.html
Space printers for the ISS.
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