On Fri, Jan 5, 2007 at 1:59 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It was short. I hope next year's chat is longer. > > Here is the next year's chat - and it is longer. > > http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/289/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html Here's this year's version, hot off the keyboards. Jon Lebkowsky lurks on silk, so you could add your questions to the mix, if you like. http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/343/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html <quote> As has become our custom, the new year in the Inkwell begins with a visit from longtime Well member, Bruce Sterling. This will be Bruce's tenth overview of Things in General, the State of the World, Where We Have Been and Where We are Tending. Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic, was born in 1954. Best known for his nine science fiction novels, he also writes design criticism. He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazine and a columnist for MAKE magazine. He also writes a weblog. During 2005, he was the "Visionary in Residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In 2008 he was the Guest Curator for the Share Festival in Torino, Italy and also "Visionary in Residence" and the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Jon Lebkowsky is Bruce's regular partner in these highly informed speculations. Jon is a cultural strategist, social commentator, and web strategist. He writes about culture, technology, media, sustainability and other topics for various publications, and has been blogging regularly since 2000. He's an acknowledged authority on social media and online community. He is cofounder of Social Web Strategies, where he does strategic consulting and coordinates social media planning and web development. In 1991 he cofounded the pioneering online company FringeWare, Inc., the first company to attempt e-commerce. The company published the influential magazine FringeWare Review, which had an international distribution. he was involved in online community and e-commerce projects throughout the 1990s, and worked with bOING bOING (as associate editor for the original paper zine), HotWired, The Whole Earth Catalog, Electric Minds, and many other web and cyberculture projects and endeavors during the World Wide Web's first decade. In the late 90s, he was actively involved in the creation of e- commerce and online community initiatives for Whole Foods Market. After leaving Whole Foods, he formed Polycot Consulting, one of Austin's lead web consulting and development companies through the 2000s. He was involved in the emergence of social technology in the early 2000s, and has been a leader in the use of social technology for political activism. With Mitch Ratcliffe, he co-edited the book Extreme Democracy. Gentlemen: ring out the old, won't you, please? Pretty please? <snip> -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
