Bruce Sterling

Futurist and famed author Bruce Sterling helped found the cyberpunk movement in science fiction and catapulted him to fame within the revolutionary new genre. Best known for his eight science fiction novels, he is also the author of several nonfiction works including, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier and Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years.

As a contributing editor of Wired magazine and a columnist for Make magazine, he writes on a wide range of topics, including politics, globalization and offshoring, technology and security, and the potential of NGOs. He also writes a weblog. During 2005, he was the "Visionary in Residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In 2008, he was the Guest Curator for the Share Festival of Digital Art and Culture in Torino, Italy.

He has appeared on Nightline, The Late Show, Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, and I.D., among many others.

Sterling is also highly involved in three unique web-based projects, the first, The Dead Media Project, consists of research notes on dead media technologies. His second, the Viridian Design Movement, is an attempt to create a green design movement focused on high-tech and stylish, yet ecologically sustainable, design. His third online project is Embrace the Decay, a web-only art piece that was commissioned by the LA Museum of Contemporary Art.