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Read through the most famous quotes from William Gibson
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm. ↗
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. ↗
#technology #war #art
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. ↗
Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it? ↗
Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film. ↗
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. ↗
#anyone #come #dead #generation #generation x
His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors design academia cyberculture and technology. During this period he worked at various jobs including a three-year stint as teaching assistant on a film history course at his alma mater. " Literary critic Larry McCaffery described the concept of the matrix in Neuromancer as a place where "data dance with human consciousness.
After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre—steampunk—with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine written with Bruce Sterling. His most recent novels—Pattern Recognition (2003) Spook Country (2007) and Zero History (2010)—are set in a contemporary world and have put his work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time. After spending his adolescence at a private boarding school in Arizona Gibson evaded the draft during the Vietnam War by emigrating to Canada in 1968 where he became immersed in the counterculture.
