Brandon Boyer

Brandon Boyer

17/09/2008 @ 07:23

Sterling: Bankers will get rich from games, not designers

Futurist keynotes are notoriously hard to glean practical information from - as witnessed by the undoubtedly interesting but awkwardly irrelevant Ray Kurzweil 2008 GDC keynote - a point which author Bruce Sterling handily sidestepped at Austin GDC by giving a talk that wavered somewhere between inspirational lecture, performance art, and low-rent magic show.

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