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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. |
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Vote: | I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, "How do you know what the future is going to be like?" And I'd always say, "I don't." |
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Vote: | It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. |
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Vote: | The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. |
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Vote: | The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. |
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Vote: | The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. |
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Vote: | The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. |
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Vote: | Time moves in one direction, memory in another. |
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Vote: | Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? |
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There are a number of people who have been (or are) named William Gibson.
* William Gibson, the playwright, author of The Miracle Worker.
* William Gibson, science fiction/cyberpunk novelist, author of Neuromancer, credited with coining the term cyberspace.
* William Gibson, Catholic martyr.
* William Gibson, Australian politician.
* William Gibson, American independent film producer and director
...(more on Wikipedia)
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "William Gibson".
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