“At a South by Southwest interactive conference that many said was too big and too crazy, one thing everyone was seemingly happy to see hadn’t changed was that science fiction writer Bruce Sterling gave the closing speech.
During the roughly 45 minutes Sterling talked, he touched on any number of issues, from the wonders of Web 2.0 technologies, to the way America and Americans are viewed abroad, to politics and daily life in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, where he currently lives.
“Our people in Washington are drinking their own bath water. They have forgotten how to build anything…it looks like the Soviet Union.” ”
(CNET News.com)
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