Bruce Sterling
Writer, visionary, Texan
On the web
- Blog: Beyond the beyond
Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, design essayist and Net critic. His book on product frontiers, Shaping Things, has inspired designers to rethink how they approach their craft. His novels Involution Ocean, The Artificial Kid, Schismatrix, Islands in the Net, and Heavy Weather, along with The Difference Engine — which he co-authored with William Gibson — influenced the cyberpunk literary movement.
Bruce is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Editor of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Other books by Bruce Sterling include Zeitgeist, Distraction, Holy Fire, The Hacker Crackdown, and Tomorrow Now.
Webstock 09
The Short but Glorious Life of Web 2.0, And What Comes Afterward
Bruce will talk about the concepts behind Web 2.0, what its pioneers expected to accomplish, how that played out in the real world, and what may happen on the web in the next two or three years.