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Yesterday Bruce Sterling was one of the international speakers at the Frontiers of Interaction IV conference in Turin, Italy.

In his talk "Science Fiction to Reality" (video here), Bruce Sterling spoke about the difference between Italian and American cultural practice in dealing with futurism and future issues, introduces us to Bruno Argento ("the Italian equivalent of Bruce Sterling"), and shares his challenges in writing works of "American fantascienza" and "Italian science fiction" ("the kind of book that Bruno Argento would write if Bruno Argento existed").

Very inspiring was his lively description of what he considers the "real" frontiers of interaction - cultural, social and legal practices - and how urbanware or everyware is just another layer that gets added to these practices, so he couldn't resist ending with a "little list" on the future frontiers of "ware".

Other international speakers yesterday were Ashley Benigno (Global 3G Handset and Application Group at Hutchison Whampoa Limited), Nicolas Nova (LIFT conference), Adam Greenfield (Nokia), and Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo!).