Science Fiction writer Bruce Sterling has posted a transcript of his February 6 talk to Transmediale 10 Atemporality for the creative artist. The talk investigates the impact of the real time web on all those cultural activities that depend in some way on narrative – including the writing of history. ”History books are ink on paper. They are linear narratives with beginning and ends. They are stories created from archival documents and from other books. Network culture is not really into that. Network culture differs from literary culture in a great many ways. And step one is that the operating system is an unquestioned given. The first thing you do is go to the operating system, without even thinking of it as a conscious…