"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
"Contemporary reality is like an overlapping set of dire science-fictional scenarios." - William Gibson, interview, New York Time, August, 19, 2007
Gabby - 2008-01-23 19:53:49
"One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible. The distinction between cyberspace and that which isn't cyberspace is going to be unimaginable. When I wrote Neuromancer in 1984, cyberspace already existed for some people, but they didn't spend all their time there. So cyberspace was there, and we were here. Now cyberspace is here for a lot of us, and there has become any state of relative nonconnectivity. There is where they don't have Wi-Fi. In a world of suberubiquitous computing, you're not gonna know when you're on or when you're off. You're always going to be on, in some sort of blended reality state."
—William Gibson, Rolling Stone, November 15, 2007
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