Bruce Sterling talk at Lift '08 - Vive l'empereur

Sunday, February 10. 2008

Bruce Sterling talk at Lift '08 - Vive l'empereur

The Lift '08 talks are up on Nuovo as videos, been catching up on the ones I wanted to see over coffee this morning. Bruce Stilrling, SF author and futurologist.

Love the way he notes 2008 is going to be a boring year (Microsoft eating Yahoo as the tonesetting event), and so he talks about Sarkozy - Le Web chickens coming home to roost?

Ties together Carla Sarkozy, Black Swans and the Internet......and the twin media axes of publicity and ambition. I also loved his view on futurism as Goldilocks - the future is either:

- too hot
- too cold
- just right

...and then the 4th scenario, the totally weird - the Emperor of Europe, one Sarkozy, who he parallels with Napoleon.

The fisking of one person is uncomfortable watching, but the laying out of the future storyboard is compelling and very believable - besides, didn't Nostradamus predict the Antichrist would come out of imperial Europe in the 21st century

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