Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor, and critic,was born in 1954. Best known for his ten science fictionnovels, he also writes short stories, book reviews,design criticism, opinion columns, and introductionsfor books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne.His nonfiction works include THE HACKER CRACKDOWN:LAW AND DISORDER ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER (1992),TOMORROW NOW: ENVISIONING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS (2003),and SHAPING THINGS (2005). He is a contributing editor of WIRED magazineand writes a weblog. During 2005,he was the "Visionary in Residence" at Art CenterCollege of Design in Pasadena. In 2008 hewas the Guest Curator for the Share Festivalof Digital Art and Culture in Torino, Italy,and the Visionary in Residence at the SandbergInstituut in Amsterdam. In 2011 he returned to Art Center as "Visionary in Residence" to runa special project on Augmented Reality.He has appeared in ABC's Nightline, BBC's The Late Show,CBC's Morningside, on MTV and TechTV, and in Time,Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times,Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review,Der Spiegel, La Stampa, La Repubblica, and many other venues.