Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014
Jan 4 2015
<http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/473/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html>
It’s time for the 2014 edition of the state of the world conversation with
Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky. The WELL has hosted this conversation
every year since 2000, ranging free through the worlds of technology,
design, politics, high and low culture, and fashion.
Bruce Sterling is a science fiction author, journalist, design theorist and
critic, and public speaker. Since he lives in Europe and travels the world
attending conferences and speaking, Bruce brings a high altitude broad
perspective to the table. Currently based in Serbia, he spends much of his
time on the road, and has a truly global perspective which you see in his
novels, nonfiction pieces, and his blog, “Beyond the Beyond.” In addition to
his novels, Bruce has focused on the cutting edges of digital/hacker
culture, climate change, global politics, and contemporary design. He
founded the Viridian Design movement, the Dead Media project, and is
currently fired up about the new aesthetic, augmented reality, and design
fiction.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_sterling>
Jon Lebkowsky is a future-focused social polymath and lately skeptical
Internet maven. He’s been a social commentator, gonzo futurist, media
analyst and critic, web consultant/developer, and online activist. He was a
cofounder of FringeWare, Inc., an early digital culture company/community,
and has worked with and written for bOING bOING, Mondo 2000, Whole Earth,
Plutopia Productions, Digital Convergence Initiative, Wireless Future, the
Society for Participatory Medicine, EFF and EFF-Austin, the WELL,
WorldChanging, SXSW, Social Web Strategies, et al. Lately he’s part of a web
development cooperative, Polycot Associates, and cofounder (with Amber Case,
Tyger AC, and Patrick Lichty) of Reality Augmented Blog:
<http://www.realityaugmentedblog.com/>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lebkowsky>
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