Bruce Sterling Author
Its not about media convergence. I love that idea, it's something you listen to along time. I don't know how many guys in the movie business and TV business are always telling me that some day the Internet will grow up and be more like TV and movies which are real businesses, unlike the Internet. You know they don't converge. Broadband eats everything. It eats the living daylights out of it.
— Closing Remarks, SXSW 2007
...the clock doesn't stop ticking whether we're here or not or whether we're human or not. As a philosophical problem it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time and I think we're getting close to one because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.
The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up. These are people who don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.
The people of the world need a motivating vision of what comes next. They need a bone deep awareness that more will happen after that--that the future is a process and not a destination. The future is not a noun, it's a verb. Our minds may reach the end of their tethers but we'll never stop future.
— The Signularity, SALT Conference