The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things (4 page)

About the Author

Bruce Sterling is an author, journalist, critic and a contributing editor of
Wired
magazine. Best known for his ten science fiction novels, he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism, opinion columns and introductions to books by authors ranging from Ernst Jünger to Jules Verne. His non-fiction 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).

About Strelka

Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is an international education project founded in 2010. At its Moscow campus, Strelka hosts a postgraduate research programme on urbanism and city development. A philanthropic project, students study for free and develop the skills required for a strategic understanding of the contemporary city and its future.

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A Note About Our Typography

The typeface on the front cover is called Lazurski, and it was designed at the Soviet type design bureau, Polygraphmash, by Vladimir Yefimov in 1984. It’s a homage to a 1960s font designed by Vadim Lazurski that was inspired by Italian typefaces of the early 16th century.

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