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Gore/Sterling

Al Gore made a speech on July 17, called "A Generational Challenge to Repower America." Bruce Sterling has annotated the text of the speech with a few critical notes from his own perspective.

Gore: To those who argue that we do not yet have the technology to accomplish these results with renewable energy: I ask them to come with me to meet the entrepreneurs who will drive this revolution. I've seen what they are doing and I have no doubt that we can meet this challenge.

Sterling: (((The new American energy moguls. The dot-greenies. Could they be any worse than oil sheiks, Nigerians and Russians? As a Viridian, I dare to hope that they might have better aesthetic taste than Moscow blingbling and Dubai skyscraper fever. Maybe this latest crop of Silicon Valley zillionaires will flaunt their millions with stuff like Ross Lovegrove "Tech Nouveau" furniture.)))

jon posted this at 4:42 PM
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