Bruce Sterling on the Crazy Year of 2003

I don't believe in "War on Terror," but there's definitely a titanic struggle going on. One side, the New World Order side, has a capacity to wage war, so that's what they do, even though that's not one of their best moves. The other side is the New World Disorder, and they're too disordered to throw any real wars, so they commit mayhem on the tribal and individual level. An individual wrapped in a belt-bomb, that's their cruise missile. Their great hope is that War creates more Terror and not less.

In the case of the American polity, the manual is supposed to be the Constitution. It gets kinda spooky when power-players in the USA decide to no longer read it.

This is our latest "state of the world, the future, and everything" annual discussion with author Bruce Sterling, whose latest science fiction novel, The Zenith Angle, is due in late spring from Del Rey.