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There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

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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
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If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas.
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It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even in middle age. There's something that pulls me to that, but at the same time, I have this increasing awareness of how banal it really is - that evil is inherently banal.
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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.
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I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.
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When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.
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We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
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You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might start sliding around. Though I.d still prefer paperbacks to a pile of PDA.s.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
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I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
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I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
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The present tense made him nervous.
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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
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