Bruce Sterling - Auteur de science fiction

the Well - Entretien avec Bruce Sterling

Le terrorisme en tant que force politique

Al Qaeda can't govern; they just produce chaos.
Hezbollah is a paramilitary terror network that can
almost manage to govern. Sort of.  The Islamic Courts
in Somalia weren't even terrorists; they are
a serious-minded justice system very interested in
law and order, but they were home-made courts
without a legislature or an executive, so they're not
a legitimate state and states want nothing to do
with them. Islamic peoples has never thrived in
the alien Westphalian nation-state system. 
Unfortunately they thrive even worse
outside of it.

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Agir pour l'environnement

It's gonna take a tremendous amount of money to
fix a soiled planetary atmosphere.
There's never been a state-sponsored project that size.
Not even close.  It makes the Hoover Dam look like
a cork.

You look around at people taking serious remediary
steps... they're not politicians.  They're not
shoestring activists and Seattle 99ers. 
They're rich moguls. Michael Bloomberg. 
Vinod Khosla. Richard Branson.  The Google boys. 
Wal-Mart. Two percent of the
population, the financial super-elite, owns fifty
percent of the planet.

I'm not saying that's a good situation, or that
its politically smart to suck up to such
profoundly antidemocratic characters, but
they're the only ones with levers in their
hands.

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Agir dans le cadre d'actions humanitaire

I hang out online with people who spend most of
their time jetting from conference to conference talking
about emerging revolutionary web-based technologies
and the convergent future of media.
It struck me recently that, if they committed to a
few less conferences per year and sent those unspent
funds to Ethiopia and Darfur, we might at least nudge those
distant folks a little toward that next step on the
pyramid... and we might reduce our ecological footprint
just slightly.

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Moins de ressources d'informations physique

That said:  I do kinda live out of a suitcase these
days.
I have remarkably few physical possessions: no car,
for instance... and I don't seem to feel much need of such
things.
I used to have all kinds of writerly hardware: a printer,
monitor, fax, landline phone, record player, VCR, stacks of
vinyl, stacks of CDs, tons of books, multitons
of magazines, newspapers piling up...  That's not
entirely gone, but
it's cut back by a factor of ten.  It's all digitized
and in the laptop, basically. 
Or it's on the Net.