"cyberpunk and cigarettes. an interview with William Gibson" - 1990 interview recovered from VHS video in 2013
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A collection of online interviews & non-fiction of William Gibson, to celebrate his latest (and first non-fiction) book "Distrust That Particular Flavor"
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"All in all, it was an incredible, rare night of intimate moments with one of the brightest minds in SF, impossible to fully capture and catalog. One walked away more aware of “the strata of time,” the slow retreat of the past, the brevity of futurism turning one generation’s magical tech into next decade’s dusty joke. All of these moments, like, well, like tears in rain..." Delete the scoop?
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Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio (.@GreatDismal's NYPL talk. Delete the scoop?
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Gibson's legendary short story, as originally published in Omni magazine (courtesy of the Internet Archive!) Delete the scoop?
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A collection of quotes from William Gibson about Philip K. Dick’s influence (or lack of) on his work. Delete the scoop?
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William Gibson discusses his science fiction, his first novel "Neuromancer," and how he uses his iPad. Delete the scoop?
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"John Shirley was cyberpunk's patient zero, first locus of the virus, certifiably virulent. A Carrier. City Come A-Walkin' is evidence of that and more." Delete the scoop?
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Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? Yes, but with some qualifiers. Delete the scoop?
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Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds interviews the godfather of cyberpunk and legendary novelist/futurist William Gibson in this fascinat (RT @pickover: "I find Twitter to be the most powerful aggregator of shared novelty that humanity has yet possessed."... Delete the scoop?
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William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, reads the introduction from his new collection of essays, Distrust That Particular Flavor. (Running Time: 10:16) Delete the scoop?
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"The drying up and blowing away of the Soviet Union wasn't in sight yet, and so the world of the future of Neuromancer was, in those early short stories, to some very real extent created to depict a..." Delete the scoop?
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✌ Reading "William Gibson on where the Internet's Bohemias are - Boing Boing" Delete the scoop?
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With Ken Goldberg, craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media, UC Berkeley In this video recorded September 4, 2012 in Kanbar Hall, find out what ideas are percolating in the mind of William Gibson, one of our greatest contemporary science... Delete the scoop?
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In real life, William Gibson looks like you would imagine. A little older than the Gibson you imagine, but he was born in 1948, so it only stands to reason.
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Excerpts from William Gibson discussion with Paul Holdengräber at NY Public Library, April 19 2013 Delete the scoop?
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An interview with the author of "Neuromancer" and father of the word "cyberspace" about his new novel, "Zero History" (With Twitter "you can get more raw novelty on your desktop than you can buying an entire magazine store" @GreatDismal Delete the scoop?
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Pining for Toronto's 'gone world' (Six years old but well worth the read: Beautiful William Gibson essay on finding and losing Toronto. Delete the scoop?
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"Read it. Then find The Demolished Man and read that too." Delete the scoop?
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"I don't know if Ill be able to make up an imaginary future in the same way as in the 80s & 90s." Delete the scoop?
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What Stuxnet means for the future of computer viruses. Delete the scoop?
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Cities, music, high fashion, technology, marketing, branding, pilates–is there nothing on which William Gibson cannot expound? Delete the scoop?
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William Gibson @WSJ on fashion and film costumes
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Wired (blog)William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and 'Gangnam Style'Wired (blog)“You'd pull it up on YouTube, as soon as it was played,” hypothesized William Gibson in a recent phone interview with Wired. Delete the scoop?
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