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Bruce Sterling.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-FEB-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Bruce Sterling.(Interview)

Article Excerpt
The Brownsville native and longtime Austinite has spent most of his adult life contemplating the future: A progenitor of the scruffy cyberpunk fiction movement (he edited the short-story anthology Mirror shades and co-authored The Difference Engine with William Gibson), he has penned ten sci-fi novels and several works of nonfiction, including 2002's Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years. These days the 53-year-old, who writes and consults as a sort of visionary-for-hire, is focused on technology and green design. He offered some thoughts on the fate of books and writing via e-mail from Turin, Italy (the 2008 World Design Capital), where he currently lives and lectures.

The paper-and-ink book has been pronounced dead more times than God. Will the digital book ascend in our lifetime?

I find it a little hard to believe that there is truly such a thing as a "digital book." There are books that have been digitized, but online and digital composition methods don't much suit "books." I mean, a linear, 60,000-word...

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