Bruce Sterling and The Ends of the Earth
After his recent upbeat talk at the South by Southwest Conference, Bruce Sterling pipes up with some more Things To Worry About on Wired.com.
This came via the ever-interesting Worldchanging.com, who remark:
It seems more and more that, if you’re the sort of person who enjoys terriblisma, who feels a sense of gratified awe when contemplating catastrophes from afar, well, these next few decades should keep your plate full of diasters, threats narrowly averted and dangers of which we’re only just becoming aware.
On the other hand, if we’re lucky, they’ll also be full of widespread selfless heroism, a renaissance of innovation and a new vision of planetary responsibility. So it’s a crapshoot, really. Play your chips where you will.
The terriblisma reference is worth checking out:
The silver screen’s supreme homage to terriblisma, the movie The Day After Tomorrow, will hit theaters worldwide next Memorial Day with a vision of a sudden climatic snap triggering a new Ice Age. Terrible. Awful. Dreadful. Pass the popcorn.
