Projects

• The Dead Media Project - A collection of "research notes" on dead media technologies, from Incan quipus, through Victorian phenakistoscopes, to the departed video game and home computers of the 1980s. The Project's homepage, including Sterling's original Dead Media Manifesto can be found at http://www.deadmedia.org
• The Viridian Design Movement - his attempt to create a "green" design movement focused on high-tech, stylish, and ecologically sound design. The Viridian Design home page, including Sterling's Viridian Manifesto and all of his Viridian Notes, is managed by Jon Lebkowsky at http://www.viridiandesign.org. The Viridian Movement helped to spawn the popular "bright green" environmental weblog Worldchanging. WorldChanging contributors include many of the original members of the Viridian "curia".
• Embrace the Decay - a web-only art piece commissioned by the LA Museum of Contemporary Art in 2003. Incorporating contributions solicited through The Viridian Design 'movement', Embrace the Decay was the most visited piece/page at LA MOCA's Digital Gallery, and included contributions from Jared Tarbell of levitated.net and co-author of several books on advanced Flash programming, and Monty Zukowski, creator of the winning 'decay algorithm' sponsored by Bruce.

Neologisms

• In the December 2005 issue of Wired magazine, Sterling coined the term buckyjunk. Buckyjunk refers to future, difficult-to-recycle consumer waste made of carbon nanotubes (aka buckytubes, based on buckyballs or buckminsterfullerene).
• In July 1989, in SF Eye #5, he was the first to use the word "slipstream" to refer to a type of speculative fiction between traditional science fiction and fantasy and mainstream literature.
• In December 1999 he coined the term "Wexelblat disaster", for a disaster caused when a natural disaster triggers a secondary, and more damaging, failure of human technology.
• In August 2004 he suggested a type of technological device (he called it "spime") that, through pervasive RFID and GPS tracking, can track its history of use and interact with the world.
• In the speech where he offered "spime", he noted that the term "blobject", with which he is sometimes credited, was passed on to him by industrial designer Karim Rashid. The term may originally have been coined by Steven Skov Holt.

• 2000 Clarke Award winner for the novel Distraction
• 1999 Hayakawa Award winner Taklamakan Best Foreign Short Story
• 1999 Hugo Award winner for the novelette Taklamakan
• 1997 Hugo Award winner for the novelette Bicycle Repairman
• 1989 Campbell Award winner for the novel Islands in the Net

• "On Favela Chic, Gothic High Tech and where we are heading." Reboot 11, Copenhagen, July 2009
• "Computer Entertainment Thirty-Five Years From Today". Flurb 6 Speech at the Austin Game Developers Conference. (Fall-Winter 2008).
• "A look at 2008, the boring year ahead". Lift08. Opening Keynote. 2008
• "Spimes and the future of artifacts" Lift
• "Mobiles and the urban poor" Lift Asis 08
• Closing talk by Bruce Sterling South by South West, March 13, 2007, Austin Texas.
• Opening keynote speech at Ubicomp 2006 conference, Orange County, California. Bruce's speech begins at 0:10:20.
• "Impact and Sustainability of Technology." Video lecture @ European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 2006
• "The Wonderful Power of Storytelling". Keynote address to Computer Game Developers' Conference, San Jose, 1991.