Put him in front of a microphone, and his time and talent seem wasted on books such as the 1992 classic Hacker Crackdown and this year's A Good Old-Fashioned Future . Lists act as a kind of bat sonar, Sterling says. You just fire these screams into the darkness, and if you hear an echo, you fly over there and check it out. Eventually, you write a book about it. Probably a novel.
Thousands more come to the movement via the Web.
And embrace inactivism. Activism is too energy-intensive. A better approach is to find the things you are doing that intensify the problem, and just cease doing them. The list is bearing fruit. Professional-level designs are accumulating on the Web.