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We may build an internet of things and not see it. We won t be able to see it any more than barcodes or the green house effect a phantom for visionaries. It s not such a bad thing, it might be in fact the victory condition says Bruce Sterling. In his presentation at Lift France, the American Science fiction writer mainly talks about the wrong aspects of his spime theory since in his opinion this is the only way to prove if a theory is good. Bruce predicts that an internet of things will start in physical places, in centers of excellence. People will get good in doing it in particular areas. Then they refine the practice and it spreads out physically from there @ Lift France, June 2009 in Marseille, France Visit our website www.tiburon-tv.com for all postings from Lift France.

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen interviews Bruce Sterling on the concept of Spimes

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen interviews Bruce Sterling on the concept of Spimes

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen interviews Bruce Sterling on the concept of Spimes

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen interviews Bruce Sterling on the concept of Spimes

J étais à la conférence Living Things hier à la Mairie de Paris. Le programme laisser espérer des discussions autour des objets connectés, des nouvelles formes de l Internet hors les murs , l Internet qui n est pas celui des PC. C était le lancement d un Think Tank sur l Internet des Objets. Je pensais entendre parler de nouveaux usages, de la manière dont l Internet continuerait à changer nos vies. Au lieu de ça, on a eu droit à de longues palabres sur RFID, Supply Chain, tracking, problématiques de standardisation, règlementation européenne et comment il fallait que les Etats prennent position pour que les méchants américains et l horrible Google ne mettent pas la main sur cette poule aux oeufs d or. Mais des discussions sur ces oeufs, des présentations de nouveaux usages, il n a pas été question. Être un objet vivant c est donc être tracké, avoir une identité unique, pouvoir être suivi partout tout le temps. Heureusement, le dernier panel nous faisait sortir du carcan, Alain Cadix replaçait le designer au centre de la création de nouveaux usages, Daniel Kaplan était à la fois provocateur, optimiste et exigeant, Jean Louis Missika replaçait l utilisateur au centre. Un peu avant, Rafi Haladjian de chez Violet présentait quelques usages et temporisait la grandiloquence technocratique qui avait précédé. Drôle d atelage que Orange, Alcatel et la Communauté Européenne pour nous parler d avenir. Si la structure de l internet normal a été pensée par un état- et singulièrement par son armée - les usages de l internet et la manière dont il est entré dans nos vies a été pensé par une multitude de petits acteurs qui ont imaginé de nouveaux usages, pas seulement pareil avec de nouvelles technologies , et qui sont devenus parmi les entreprises les plus puissantes. Franchement, si l Internet des objets c est une puce RFID sur un T-Shirt pour savoir où en est le stock de Zara, le futur est bien terne. A croire qu ils n ont pas entendu parler des FabLabs, qu ils n ont jamais lu Bruce Sterling et ignorent donc son concept de Spime (qu ils se réjouissent, la traduction française de son Shaping Things sort an mai, 4 ans parès l original, un siècle dans ce monde), qu ils n imaginent pas que quand les objets reprogrammables et open source seront facilement disponible on verra la même créativité dans l internet physique que dans celle de l internet logique . Et qu on aura les mêmes problématiques de piratage, protection de la vie privée, recyclage, etc. La question de qui définit les standards sera alors bien secondaire. Mais je ne pense pas qu ils puissent l ignorer, ils sont simplement enfermés dans des problématiques en silo, il faut un peu de sang neuf là-dedans. Il faut que les adolescents d aujourd hui bricolent avec leur Nabaztag et ses ztamps, ivnetent des usages à leur touchatag, comme je bidouillais des trucs sur mon Oric 1 il y a 25 ans.

Fran ois Roche e Bruce Sterling. Un architetto di science fiction e uno scrittore con l ossessione dell architettura e del design.

This week Tony starts a new aspect of the show - The Editorial. Following in the footsteps of some of the great SF magazine editorials from the likes of John W Campbell, Ben Bova and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, join Tony for his once a month editorial as he plots the Sofa's route for world globalisation. Solar Flare John Kessel Black Phoenix Alchemy Lad

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Today the StarShipSofa travels along to Alan Moore and his comics. Join Tony as he himself learns all about Alan Moore and his life. Including Hugo winning comic Watchman. Get ready, Blast Off

La Cenerentola by Gywneth Jones Act I: The Scholar Gypsies My first thought, when I saw the sisters, was that they were simply too perfect. They had to be identical twins: about sixteen years old: tall but not too tall, sun-kissed golden skin; rounded and slender limbs, long golden hair, blue eyes. They were walking in step, arm in arm, whispering together; identical even in their graceful movements. One pushed back her hair, the other brushed an insect from her immaculate white shorts. Each gesture seemed a mirror image of the other. Impossibly perfect! Then I saw the mother, strolling along behind (she had to be their mother, the likeness was too close for any other relationship), and I thought perhaps I understood. The older model -or should one say, the original- was a very goodlooking woman; a blonde with long legs, regular features and lightly tanned skin. Her eyes behind her sunglasses were no doubt just as blue. But there were details -lips that were a little narrow, a square jaw, a figure not so exactly proportioned- that added up to something less than flawless beauty. Narration by Julie Davis

This week StarShipSofa looks towards the novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. Is this one of the greatest SF novels ever written or is it a over hyped load of old tosh? Spoiler warnings... Tony C Smith will tell all about this novel. You have been warned. Blast Off.

Graves Winner of the Nebula for Best Short Story 1993 Winner of the World Fantasy Award 1993 by Joe Haldeman I have this persistent sleep disorder that makes life difficult for me, but still I want to keep it. Boy, do I want to keep it. It goes back twenty years, to Vietnam. To Graves. Dead bodies turn from bad to worse real fast in the jungle. You've got a few hours before rigor mortis makes them hard to handle, hard to stuff into a bag. By that time, they start to turn greenish, if they started out white or yellow, where you can see the skin. It's mostly bugs by then, usually ants. Then they go to black and start to smell. They swell and burst. Joe Haldeman's latest book The Accidental Time Machine Narration by James Campanella

Presentation at the conference »Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign« in Potsdam, Germany. The talk was held on 31. March 2007. The Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign was organised by the Interface Design programme of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Conference web site: interface.fh-potsdam.de/innoforum Interface Design programme: interface.fh-potsdam.de Cast: Innovationsforum

Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo. Presentation at the conference »Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign« in Potsdam, Germany. The talk was held on 31. March 2007. The Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign was organised by the Interface Design programme of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Conference web site: http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/innoforum Interface Design programme: http://interface.fh-potsdam.de Cast: Innovationsforum