Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling has been called by Time "perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre." Three of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he has been a contributing writer for Wired since its conception. In 2005 he is "Visionary-in-Residence" at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond has been active since 2003.
"It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year....I can
tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get
more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work
that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal
information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no
better primer for putting it all together."-- Cory Doctorow,
"BoingBoing"
"Now, with "Shaping Things, " design gets full-court consideration
in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory
toward a new product order. . . . On top of being one of the most
strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves,
"Shaping Things, " designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most
originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that
artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more
sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for
granted."-- ""Architect's Newspaper""
"Now, with
"Now, with "Shaping Things," design gets full-court consideration
in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory
toward a new product order. . . . On top of being one of the most
strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves,
"Shaping Things," designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most
originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that
artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more
sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for
granted." -- ""Architect's Newspaper""
& quot; It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all
year....I can tell that this is a book I'll return to again and
again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and
timely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous
computation, universal information resources, and hacker-activist
renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together.&
quot; -- Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
& quot; Now, with Shaping Things, design gets full-court
consideration in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the
profession's trajectory toward a new product order. . . . On top of
being one of the most strikingly insightful little volumes on the
design shelves, Shaping Things, designed by Lorraine Wild, is one
of the most originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence
that artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a
more sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for
granted.& quot; -- Architect's Newspaper
" It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year....I can
tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get
more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work
that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal
information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no
better primer for putting it all together." -- Cory Doctorow,
BoingBoing
" Now, with "Shaping Things," design gets full-court consideration
in a powerfully argued thesis tracking the profession's trajectory
toward a new product order. . . . On top of being one of the most
strikingly insightful little volumes on the design shelves,
"Shaping Things," designed by Lorraine Wild, is one of the most
originally and empathically crafted pieces of evidence that
artifacts do evolve, and that designers may hold the keys to a more
sophisticated relationship to the things around us we take for
granted." -- "Architect's Newspaper"
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