“Cyberpunk” will be written somewhere on my tombstone. There’s nothing I can do about it. But I can’t wait for the day it goes from being popular culture to being high culture. Because I’ve got my tux ready for my Nobel Prize ceremony.
Predictor: Sterling, Bruce
Prediction, in context:In a 1992 article for The Boston Globe, Nathan Cobb covers what it means to be a “cyberpunk.” He quotes sci-fi writer and technology commentator Bruce Sterling. Cobb writes: ”Bruce Sterling of Austin, Texas, admits to being a tad baffled by cyberpunk’s elevation from literary genre to pop phenomenon. As one of the best known of the cyberpunk science-fiction writers, Sterling is a true cyberpunk laureate. He was there at the genesis. ‘”Cyberpunk” will be written somewhere on my tombstone,’ he muses. ‘There’s nothing I can do about it. But I can’t wait for the day it goes from being popular culture to being high culture. Because I’ve got my tux ready for my Nobel Prize ceremony.'”
Biography:Bruce Sterling, a writer, consultant and science fiction enthusiast, wrote or co-wrote “Schismatrix,” “The Hacker Crackdown” and “The Difference Engine” and edited “Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology.” In the 1990s, he wrote tech articles for Fortune, Harper’s, Details, Whole Earth Review and Wired, where he was a contributing writer from its founding. He published the nonfiction book “Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years” in 2002. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: November 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: Community/Culture
Subtopic: Cyberpunks/Hackers
Name of publication: Boston Globe
Title, headline, chapter name: Cyberpunk: Terminal Chic – Technology is Moving Out of Computers and into the Culture
Quote Type: Direct quote
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