I was thinking to myself in the shower a few days ago, it must be incredibly boring to be Bruce Sterling. Where most of us can open HN and see something new and shiny and even sometimes unexpected, he saw it all clearly 20 years ago.
On the contrary, how can he be bored if he's constantly roaming his imagination 20yrs ahead of where we are now, just as vividly as he was in 1994 writing about cryptocurrency, laptops made from straw, and reconfigurable chairs governed by topological expressions.
Bruce Sterling has a whole bunch of futurist notes you can read: http://www.viridiandesign.org/NotesIndex.htm - some of it is spot on, some of it was obvious even at the time to clued in people, and some of it is way out there still.