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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
Future
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Evenly
Distributed
Arrived
Poverty
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