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z2004-05-12- Sterling Zenith Reading

Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 18, 2008 12:47 am

Went to Bruce Sterling book signing for The Zenith Angle (ISBN:0-345-46061-8 ) last night. First time I've heard him speak - highly enjoyable (not just a q&a like that lazy Neal Stephenson dude). Some random bits:

instead of reading an excerpt (he was going to do "the fight scene") from the book, he read us (based on "polling" us) a story he's written for the relaunched Amazing SciFi magazine. Whose main character kept sounding like a buffed-up [Donald Trump] to me.
raised in India (oil brat)
- loves [Bolly Wood] movies, esp Qayamat (no need to listen to, or even read, the dialogue)
[ELSI]: [Ethical Legal Social Implications]: results in PhilJones:BecomingConservative
runs a [Writers Workshop] http://www.io.com/~lawrence/TC.html
likes World Changing http://www.worldchanging.com/
working on piece for Wired Mag on War On Iraq leading to US withdrawal leaving behind a Failed State (like NigerIa) to be run by NGO-s (who can move the Cheap Oil) and their PMC-s.
- EU as model for future states - regulation without sovereignty.

Bruce is more pessimistic than I expected, though maybe that's a [Sign Of The Times].

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