Digital Decay

This article is a transcript of Sterling’s keynote address at Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media, which took place at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on March 30–31, 2001.

“You may wonder why a science fiction writer like myself takes such obvious delight in hanging out with museum curators. It’s a paradox, like the one we heard in the name of this conference, “Preserving the Immaterial.” If it’s immaterial, why would it need preserving? And if you’re a futurist, then how come you’re in a museum?” (…)

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