I am here to tell you, regardless of what anyone says, that Bruce Sterling’s keynote today was freaking awesome. He talked about the ubiquity of computing and technology in only the weird, bored, quirky way that a sci-fi writer can – fantastic stuff. You can read a full transcription over at Raph’s blog.

Hello, thanks for having me into your event today, and thanks for that intro. Though there is a problem with that, I am not Bruce Sterling. He couldn’t make it, he sent me instead.

The reason he couldn’t make it is that in 2043, Bruce is 89. Dr. Sterling is too frail to get into a time machine to talk to game devs, so he called on me to do it. I am one of his grad students. I volunteered, sort of, to journey back in time using some of our new technical methods. It wasn’t exactly easy, and I am here and fully briefed.

Before I get started about computer entertainment 35 years from today, even though that is a very interesting topic and I am writing my thesis about it, I think I should level with you. I should tell you a few things first confidentially.

Meanwhile GameSetWatch has analysis of the event – Christian didn’t dig it as much as I did, but he has some valid points in there just the same. On futurism!

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