Long Now’s Stewart Brand asked author Bruce Sterling how today’s science fiction compares to the Golden Age of sci-fi. His answer spans from Buck Rogers to Cyberpunk to the latest Chinese SciFi.
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In October 02018 Bruce Sterling discussed “How to Be Futuristic” at The Interval. The future is a kind of history that hasn’t happened yet. The past is a kind of future that already happened. The present vanishes before it can be described. But we have to say something about the future, since we have to live there. So what can we say?
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