William Gibson
William Gibson
William Ford Gibsonis an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 March 1948
CityConway, SC
CountryUnited States of America
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.
The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.
The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.
Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.
Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.