SXSW Day 4
Highlight of the day today was Bruce Sterling's lowlights of our future. I'd try to summarize his melancholy rant, but I'll just give a few choice quotes and post Austinist's coverage of the talk.
On authors and audiences:
My concern is not so much for the death of the Author, but the death of the audience... my Twitter audience is probably a better audience than you.
On social media and connectivity (i.e. Twitter):
Look at cell phones. Even the poorest people are densely connected. [In the near future] connectivity will be a signifier of poverty rather than sophistication.
I'd highly recommend listening to the podcast of the talk once it's available.
