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Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

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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
Cyberspace
Telephone
Telephones

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His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)
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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
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