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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
William Gibson in
Technology
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson in
Technology
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson in
Technology
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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
William Gibson in
Technology
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Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
William Gibson
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For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
William Gibson in
Technology
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
William Gibson
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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
William Gibson in
Technology
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson in
Technology
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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
William Gibson in
Technology
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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.
William Gibson
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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson in
Technology
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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
William Gibson
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson in
Technology
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