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Bruce Sterling
Mar 19, 2016 12:14 PM

Bruce Sterling speech at SXSW Interactive 2016

*Lotta politics.

https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/closing-remarks-bruce-sterling-sxsw-interactive-2016

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