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Cyberpunk pioneer has designs on a better world The author of seminal science-fiction works is taking a very pragmatic approach to the world’s environmental challenges Interview by Anthony Alexander Thursday June 1, 2006, The Guardian Technology Guardian: How did you get into environmentalism and climate change? Bruce Sterling: Science-fiction writers are not effective activists. But [...]

Continuing the Blade Runner theme, many cities are increasingly coming to resemble Ridley Scott’s vision of future Los Angeles. This is Shanghai now, from a Flickr pool. If anywhere is going to look like Blade Runner in 2019, it’s a good bet it’ll be a Chinese city.