Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
