I’ve heard the name on and off for a couple of years now–that the sharpest observer of all things cyberage and future technology is actually scifi author by the name of Bruce Sterling. If you’re one of the true digerati, or a regular reader of Wired, it won’t be much news to you to hear me tell you he’s an amazing writer–but for the rest of you, I hope this is useful news.

I’m actually reading one of his few non-science fiction books, called Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 years, which is about his take on upcoming trends. Its totally unlike your typical trends forecasting book, though for lots of reasons. For one, it’s incredibly well written and clear; it’s funny as all get out; and the insights are more compelling because they are coming from a slightly different angle.

Tomorrow Now is one of Sterling’s newest books, published in 2003. But I wanted to see what he was saying about Web 2.0 and blogs and Net phenomena that have really taken hold since then. So I found these two audio interviews: from IT Conversations and from the New Media Awards 2006 and I plan on listening to both.

Let me know what your impressions of Sterling are too. I’m very pleased today with this discovery!

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