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
The future is not google-able.
There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.
The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.
All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.
Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.