EFF "Publications - Bruce Sterling" Archive

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Catscan_columns/ - Directory containing Sterling's columns for _Catscan_

Dead_Media_Project/ - Directory of information from Bruce Sterling's
   Dead Media Project, a collaborative effort to document all known
   unsupported and extinct media, from Nazi submarine spy communications 
   systems to children's ViewMaster toys to dinosauric computer equipment.

FSF_columns/ - Directory containing Sterling's columns for _Fantasy_&_Science_
   _Fiction_Magazine_

Hacker_Crackdown/ - Excellent book, _The_Hacker_Crackdown:_Law_&_Order_on_
   _the_Electronic_Frontier_ (several formats available in this directory)

Interzone_columns/ - Directory containing Sterling's columns for _Interzone_

README - Redistribution policy

alcei_sterling.note - US author Bruce Sterling on why he joined ALCEI 
   (Electronic Frontiers Italy) 

cfp_94_sterling.speech - Bruce Sterling's renarks at Computers, Freedom 
   and Privacy Conference IV, Chicago, Mar. 26, 1994, on whether or not 
   threats to privacy posed by computerization are for real or not. Classic 
   quote: "I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the
   topics of privacy threat raised by this panel.  And I don't.  One reason
   is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large,
   monolithic bureaucracies (of whatever character, political or
   economic)  that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way
   surveillance of an unsuspecting populace.  I've come to feel that
   computation just doesn't work that way.  Being afraid of monolithic
   organizations especially when they have computers, is like being
   afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire."

comp_game_designers.article - Bruce Sterling's "The Wonderful Power of 
   Storytelling", from the Computer Game Developers Conference, March 1991, 
   San Jose CA.

crypto_conf_keynote.speech - Bruce Sterling's keynote address from 
   Cryptography Conference, Sept. 1993, on cryptography's "coming of age".

cyberpunk_library.biblio - "Bruce Sterling's Idea of What Every 
   Well-Appointed 'Cyberpunk SF' Library Collection Should Possess 
   (circa August 1996)

cyberview_91.report - Bruce Sterlings conference report on the CyberView 
   (SummerCon) 1991 hacker convention.

free_as_air.speech - "Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge", 
   Bruce Sterling Speech to the Library Information Technology Association
   June 1992, San Francisco CA. Main premise: "The nature of our society 
   strongly affects the nature of our technology."

gurps_labor_lost.article - Bruce Sterling's account of the US Secret Service
   raid on Steve Jackson Games, and its aftermath.

paradigms_workshop_sterling.lexicon - Bruce Sterling's "A Workshop Lexicon"
   The 'Paragons' Iteration", from from PARAGONS: TWELVE MASTER SCIENCE 
   FICTION WRITERS PLY THEIR CRAFT. Sterling says of it, "This 
   lexicon is not a guide to scholarship.  The Workshop Lexicon is a 
   guide (of sorts) for down-and-dirty hairy-knuckled sci-fi writers, 
   the kind of ambitious subliterate guttersnipes who actually write 
   and sell professional genre material.   It's rough, rollicking, 
   rule-of-thumb stuff suitable for shouting aloud while pounding the 
   table.

sterling.biblio - Bruce Sterling bibliography.

sterling_gibson_nas.speeches - Speeches on networking and the future by
   William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, National Academy of Sciences
   Convocation on Technology and Education, Washington D. C., May 10, 1993

sterling_hstf.testimony - Testimony of Bruce Sterling, on the "National
   Research and Education Network" before the House
   Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Washington DC, April 29,
   1993. Excerpt: "...However, it's a truism in technological
   development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
   Today I'd like to mention two or three trifling problems
   that have come up that were not entirely obvious from the
   perspective of the early 1990s." Sterlings novel [pun intended] testimony
   is presented as the comments of a hypothetical NII worker from the 21st
   Century.  This is probably the first time science fiction has been
   presented as testimony to a Congressional hearing.

virtual_city_sterling.speech - Speech at Rice Design Alliance:  "The 
   Virtual City", Houston, Texas, March 2, 1994, by Bruce Sterling. 
   A fascinating exploration of the relationship between communications
   technology and urbanization, culminating in a look at how virtual 
   reality may be used for future urban planning and architecture.

virtual_war.article - _Wired_ article on "virtual war" - the use of 
   "virtual reality" in war simulation, and, eventually, actual combat.
   By Bruce Sterling.