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Design Hardware/Software for Global Civil Society

Posted by michael on from the sten-gun dept.

-cman- writes "White box builders and Gnome hackers take note! With the announcement of various oxymoronic "trusted computing" initiatives in recent week, Bruce Sterling, self-appointed Pope-Emperor of the Viridian Design Movement has announced a new design contest to design a '...genuinely trustable, cheap, well-designed, rugged, sexy, accessible computer system that is owned, manufactured and operated for, well, Global Civil Society.'" I'll buy one.

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  1. Call it the difference engine by Joel+Ironstone · · Score: 0, Troll

    Man if he calls it the difference engine I'll be sick all over myself. That was the worst book ever. How can a man who wrote such dribble ever proport to have anything worthwhile to say afterwards.

    I do blame this bruce guy for that book and not Willliam Gibson.