Bruce Sterling (2014). Transmediale Opening Ceremony Talk
https://www.youtube.com/embed/dacKWLGZklM
More: Bruce Sterling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling from the Transmediale archive https://archive.transmediale.de/content/bruce-sterling More: 'Bruce Sterling in 1992 Comments on Bohemia, the Electronic Frontier, and the 1990s' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwMsmKlqUBg Related: "Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity" (Barlow, J. P., 1996, February 8). Criticism: Barlow's perspective is consistent with the political philosophy of http://trigg.gr/tag/PoliticsLibertarianism#126138B873516.S2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism Bio: John Perry Barlow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow "became a digital rights activist and a champion of free speech on the internet. His ideas captured the mood of a generation that believed people could reinvent themselves in a new virtual world with no government controls and no national boundaries. And, by the way, where they could share digital music and movies without paying for them. As Barlow pointed out, digital goods, unlike physical goods, could be infinitely replicated at zero cost" (Schofield, J., 2018, February 11). Bibliography: Presentation by Bruce Sterling at transmediale 2014 afterglow Opening Ceremony | transmediale. (2026). Transmediale.de. https://archive.transmediale.de/content/presentation-by-bruce-sterling-at-transmediale-2014-afterglow-opening-ceremony transmediale. (2024). Transmediale.de. https://transmediale.de/en/media/bruce-sterling-at-afterglow-effects-transmediale-2014-opening-ceremony Barlow, J. P. (1996, February 8). 'A declaration of the independence of cyberspace'. Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence Schofield, J. (2018, February 11). 'John Perry Barlow obituary'. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/11/john-perry-barlow-obituary
