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A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
~ Bruce Sterling
Cam
Come
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Effect
Going
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Security
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Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
~ Bruce Sterling
Aggressive
Drop
Go
Going
Hat
However
Humans
Land
Longer
Possible
Standard
Technically
Very
War
Work
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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
Also
Bruce
Data
I Write
Identities
Legal
Name
Novels
Other
Own
Property
Public
Two
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I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
~ Bruce Sterling
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Between
Distinction
Everywhere
General
Means
Media
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I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.
~ Bruce Sterling
Ages
Came
Clouds
Felt
Good
Had
Happy
I Love
Italy
Just
Like
Love
Me
Out
Really
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
~ Bruce Sterling
About
Basic
Basic Research
Doing
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Like
Nonfiction
Paid
Pleasant
Research
Some
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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 wasn't aware of it yet.
~ Bruce Sterling
Aware
Away
Cyberspace
Fifty
Here
Just
Only
Ten
Ten Years
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Thought
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I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
~ Bruce Sterling
Am
Became
Cultural
Esteemed
Figure
Hooked
How
I Am
Once
Punk
Scenarios
Screwed-Up
Student
T-Shirt
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I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.
~ Bruce Sterling
Actually
Around
Critical
Describe
Distance
Experience
Here
Intellectual
Live
Merely
Parasitic
Position
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I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.
~ Bruce Sterling
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If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
~ Bruce Sterling
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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
~ Bruce Sterling
Business
Commonly
Course
Developing
Developing World
Disasters
Ecological
Fail
Massive
Met
Military
Politics
Quite
Repeated
Us
Will
World
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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
After
Amusement
Area
Barrier
Disaster
Entire
Environmental
Extremely
Gets
Getting
Go
Going
Great
Idea
Like
Lively
Park
Possibility
Seems
Story
Tour
Which
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One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
~ Bruce Sterling
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Distractions
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People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
~ Bruce Sterling
Bin
Colleagues
Consider
Cult
Find
Had
Having
Him
His
Job
Legitimate
Mixed
Naturally
Pentagon
People
Success
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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
~ Bruce Sterling
Guys
Like
Music
People
Political
Pop
Pop Music
Really
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Stuff
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Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
~ Bruce Sterling
Call
Circumstance
Circumstances
Everyone
Home
Ignorance
Illiterate
More
Privacy
Really
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Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
~ Bruce Sterling
About
Cynical
Forever
Going
Illusions
Like
List
Many
Political
Pop
Pop Song
Saying
Solution
Song
Stay
Top
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You
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The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
~ Bruce Sterling
Actress
Actress
Bollywood
Corrupt
Could
Distribution
Making
Making Money
Maybe
Money
Movies
Off
Sell
Shoes
Some
Stepped
System
Trouble
Turned
Up
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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
~ Bruce Sterling
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Accumulate
Data
Declining
Ends
Ignorance
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Various
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