William Gibson

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1. 1948 age 0

   Born

2. 1995 age 47

   CreditJohnny Mnemonicscreenwriter

• SASam Anderson1 title
• FFFrances Fisher1 title
• GEGreg Ellis1 title
• GRGiovanni Ribisi1 title
• CPCCH Pounder1 title
• KRKeanu Reeves1 title
• STSusanna Thompson1 title
• MWMaggie Wheeler1 title
• KGKathy Griffin1 title
• MMMelinda McGraw1 title

• 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 ways it defines who and what we are, in how easily memory is subject to revision. When I was writing Neuromancer, it was wonderful to be able to tie a lot of these interests into the computer metaphor. It wasn't until I could finally afford a computer of my own that I found out there's a drive mechanism inside — this little thing that spins around. I'd been expecting an exotic crystalline thing, a cyberspace deck or something, and what I got was a little piece of a Victorian engine that made noises like a scratchy old record player. That noise took away some of the mystique for me; it made computers less sexy. My ignorance had allowed me to romanticize them.

  William Gibson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

  William Gibson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

  William Gibson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like "career," I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old's interest in science fiction. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from New York and London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write. <br> And have been, ever since.

  William Gibson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The future is not google-able.

  William Gibson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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 beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.

  William Gibson, CC BY-SA 4.0