Spime

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    Conversation with Bruce Sterling on spimes

    By David Orban ⋅ May 1, 2008 ⋅ One comment

    A few days ago we had the pleasure of a long Italian dinner, and of an after dinner on-camera conversation with Bruce Sterling, writer, speaker, futurist, and inventor of the word spime. Posted in parts 1, 2, and 3 online*, the video does not only talk about spimes and their meaning, but also covers other [...]

    Conversation with Vernor Vinge on spimes

    By David Orban ⋅ April 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

    Vernor Vinge is an award winning author, whose latest book Rainbows End is full of what we now call spimes: smart networked sensors, that fill the world with intelligent chatter that the protagonists of the book constantly rely on. (You can also download a full, free electronic version of the book.)
    We had the pleasure of [...]

    What is a spime?

    By David Orban ⋅ February 21, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

    The word spime has been coined by Bruce Sterling from the contraction of the two terms space and time to express the nature of a new class of objects, which are aware of where they are, and when they are on the planet. This awareness is achieved through the universal inclusion of global positioning functionality, [...]

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