Interview with Larry Brilliant

We ring in the new year with our ninth annual visit from Bruce Sterling, in

It's a very human activity, that's for sure. The words can have an incandescent feeling, brighter and larger than life. The interactions can have heightened emotional or creative charges, despite the fact that we may never see one another face to face. Taking part in a conversation in text, distributed to its participants by means of networked computers, is a relatively new group experience. It's just familiar enough to feel like there's nothing to it, and just foreign enough to feel like the birthplace of a new kind of human community.

When you log into an online service, you use new tools for an ancient

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