More from William Ford Gibson

  1. On the most basic level, computers in my books are simply a metaphor for human memory: I'm interested in the hows and whys of memory, the w…
  2. There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but…
  3. I didn't imagine that art girls in the Midwest would be flashing their tits in cyberspace...but I'm glad that they're doing it.
  4. The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed.
  5. It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it... I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities.
  6. All I knew about the word 'cyberspace' when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially…
  7. I became so frustrated with my inability to physically move the characters through the imaginary narrative space, that I actually developed…
  8. Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targetted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils pre…

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