To Set A Story in The Future — Bruce Sterling at The Interval
Science fiction author Bruce Sterling on what it took for science fiction literature and SciFi futurist thinking to happen…
Watch full video of this talk here: http://bit.ly/2Cz9DjE
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 has 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?
This video from our long-term thinking lecture series Conversations at The Interval was produced with support from Stripe, who build the economic infrastructure of the internet http://Stripe.com
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