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I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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William Ford Gibson
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