the one and only value of being a journalist: "getting una oliva más in your martini" (bruce sterling (audio/mpeg, 138 KB) )

next50years" (thanks chris)

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance.

more interesting is the 'make me hunting' line:

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

with ease i have found his pseudo "vincent omniaveritas". surprisingly there are a lot of dead links, even google cache didn't spit out anything. and then my provider went offline ...*g*

So where are these imaginary earthshaking geek outlaws who laugh in derision at mere government? Well, they do exist, and they're in Redmond. The big time in modern outlaw geekdom is definitely Microsoft. The Justice Department can round up all the Al Qaeda guys they can wiretap, but when they went to round up Redmond, they went home limping and sobbing, and without a job. That is a geek fait accompli, it's a true geek lock-in. In 2001, Microsoft has got its semi-legal code in every box that matters. They make those brown-shoe IBM monopolists of the 1950s look like model public citizens. (bruce sterling)