Quote by Bruce Sterling
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thoug

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasnt aware of it yet. – Bruce Sterling

Other quotes by Bruce Sterling

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, were very unlikely to accept or recognize world peace even when we get it. – Bruce Sterling

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Peace
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I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote. – Bruce Sterling

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legal
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My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? – Bruce Sterling

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environmental
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Other Quotes from
Technology
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Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of mans command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. – Cordell Hull

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Technology

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us – through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology – that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. – Richard Dawkins

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Technology

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment. – Michael Harrington

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Technology

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. – Robert Nelson

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Technology

Random Quotes

If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

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Brevity

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. – Socrates

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good

I think the best place to work in football is England. – Jose Mourinho

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best

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nations leading causes of preventable death, but its less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. – Ed Markey

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Knowledge