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Saturday, December 27, 2003 |
Next 20 Years Rant (Delivered by Bruce Sterling at "The Next 20 Years",
Austin 1998 edition, at La Zona Rosa, 9.17.1998).
Suppose you could take a laptop down to Austin's highways at
rush hour. Suppose you could hold that laptop up and push a function key.
Suppose you could visibly see the entire spectrum of particulates in the air.
At first, of course, you'd be horrified. It would be like that gruesome
intimate moment where the dentist gives you that red stuff that shows you
the plaque on your teeth. And then if you turned your screen backwards and
it showed you that stuff nestling inside your lungs.... Holy mackerel. I'm
a changed man. I want a very different kind of car. I want it right now.
Who's going to sell me one?
Let's take it a step further. You're the guy trying to sell electric cars.
You want to create consumer demand? Sell those smog detectors. No, give
them away. Install them in the electric car as a standard feature. Write
the software, and get the sensors installed in the dashboard. Make the
invisible visible. Let people see. The rest will follow.
Change what people see. Change how they see. That's why I consider this
basically an
artistic problem.
5:32:54 PM 
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The Mission of the
Kids Philosophy Slam is to give kids a voice, and to inspire kids to
think by unlocking their intellectual and creative potential through a
unique and powerful philosophical forum.
10:30:55 AM
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The 10 best movies of 2003. From the eccentric, intimate "Lost in Translation" to the epic nobility of "Return of the King" to the rough-hewn affirmation of "In America," Salon critics Stephanie Zacharek, Charles Taylor and Andrew O'Hehir list 2003's best films. [Salon Headlines]
7:06:20 AM
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