Comments on: Searching for Bruce Sterling

By: bbq

bbq — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:57:59 +0000

After a bit of hunting around I finally asked the man himself and according to Bruce he opted out of having the talk recorded/posted online. Connectivity _IS_ poverty, it seems….

By: bbq

bbq — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:10:55 +0000

I’ve been searching the web for the last month too. There are photos of the talk that clearly show at least one guy in the audience with a video camera recording it. Unless they’re waiting around to release a SXSW DVD box set, someone should put the damn video of the talk up!

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By: Mike Rohde

Mike Rohde — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:46:34 +0000

Claudine, thanks so much for your kind words on the Sterling and other sketchnotes I was able to capture at SXSW.

Interesting to see that Bruce Sterling in his Wired post doesn’t even recall what he said (since he was munching on chips)!

I’m now very curious to go through the podcast and hear the talk again.

When I capture things live like this, I try hard to capture the idea and essence of what’s being said, and if I can grab it, the exact words. But often that can be challenging, depending on the speaker and the environment.

I think I’m still absorbing and sorting out what Sterling said in his talk, which happens every time I hear/rehear his talks from SXSW (a good thing).

FYI, the live 20×2 sketchnoting video you link to was inspired by a previous Bruce Sterling talk. He had a quote in a SXSW talk from a few years ago about the Serbians he hung out with saying (I’m paraphrasing) “We will make no choices/decisions based in fear” — which I repeated as the statement in my live sketchnote.

Ful circle I guess.

Thanks again!

Mike

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:09:59 +0000

If Sterling rants at SXSWi and no one records it can he even be said to have ranted at all?

Claudine, you really must track this thing down…

By: Claudine Ise

Claudine Ise — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:44:45 +0000

I think Bruce Sterling’s talk is turning into a kind of performance piece after-the-fact, judging from what he says about it here–
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/sxswi-you-prett.html

but we’re the ones doing the performing.

By: Marius

Marius — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:10:55 +0000

Oh, it’s an old podcast (from 2007). Disregard. Sorry! :/

By: Marius

Marius — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:00:04 +0000

This may be what you’re looking for: http://audio.sxsw.com/podcast/interactive/panel/2007/SXSW.INT.20070313.BruceSterling.mp3

By: Dennis Moser

Dennis Moser — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:04:59 +0000

(The sound of me smiling sadly & quietly, watching as a whole generation begins to awaken to the fact of the impermanence of their allegedly-connected social milieu disappears, due to a lack of understanding of what the word “archives” really means …)

It’s called “documentation” and I don’t mean in the sense of writing code. A “back-up” is not the archives. All of this is only pointing to the failure of the Social Net’s failure to self-document in a manner that will provide context to the blog conversations, the tweets, the endless stream of Flickr sets that we seem to be embracing as “history”.

If connectivity is the new poverty, as seems to be emerging from all of this, then it is a poverty of spirit and intellectual understanding of who we were, are, and are becoming.

Professionally, I feel your pain, as these are issues with which I am daily grappling …