The Sterling Future
Posted by 76design on March 23rd, 2006
Not all of us got to go to Austin and join the SXSW party… but we don’t have to miss out completely. Following up on Steve’s post, here’s a bunch of podcasts at the 2006.SXSW web site.
In particular I found the Bruce Sterling speech to be very inspiring. I listened to it and David Jones’ Seneca event podcast the same day and found many similarities.
David speaks about practical applications of what’s happening now, and he’s got a lot of insight on how organizations can leverage sincere use of social media. Bruce Sterling takes it a decade or more out, and gives us the macro view of it all. He’s a Sci-Fi writer, so he’s really well positioned to give us the vocabulary we need to describe the uber-strange-wonderful next wave. Imagine taking a person from 10 years ago and asking them to describe the web of today. They wouldn’t even have the words…
