Author, futurist, and design visionary Bruce Sterling delivers the keynote lecture of the Ransom Center's tenth biennial Flair Symposium, "Visions of the Future," November 1, 2012, in Jessen Auditorium. Best known for his science fiction novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre, Sterling also writes about and teaches design. His archive resides at the Ransom Center. The 2012 Flair Symposium continued over the following two days, bringing together historians, architects, industrial designers, and visionaries in the fields of science fiction, film, theater, and future studies to discuss how the future has been imagined across their respective disciplines. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/flair/

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