#williamgibson (16 links)
- On Jackpot Technologies, or, what Apple's new headset is actually *for* davekarpf.substack.com
- How Neuromancer formed the Cyberpunk Aesthetics | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- William Gibson Interview: His Buzz Rickson Line, Tech Wear, and the Limits of Authenticity rawrdenim.com
William Gibson and his novel Neuromancer burst into the cultural consciousness in 1984. The book was in the first wave of cyberpunk and established ideas of…
The actual "gear queer hits the street" look is crazier than that - I don't really understand it… As near as I can tell it's the look of people who aren't carrying a gun but want to make you think they are. It's a mad look - the people they imagine they are dressing up as will never be caught dead in any of that gear, because they are carrying guns. Their uniform is baggy khakis, a striped polo shirt and a faded ball cap. It's called "grey man" and it's this look that's in-between everything. Are they tennis playing tech executives, or are they there to fix the air conditioner? You sort of can't tell. It's designed to attract absolutely no attention and project as little law enforcement and special forces vibe as possible. It's become so popular that now when I see anyone wearing that uniform I check for the bulge of a weapon. In Afghanistan I've been told that with a very specific trim of beard that look will get you in trouble unless you genuinely are the real thing.
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- Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson theparisreview.org
If Pattern Recognition was about the immediate psychic aftermath of 9-11, and Spook Country about the deep end of the Bush administration and the invasion of Iraq, I could say that Zero History is about the global financial crisis as some sort of nodal event, but that must be true of any 2010 novel with ambitions on the 2010 zeitgeist. But all three of these novels are also about that dawning recognition that the future, be it capital-T Tomorrow or just tomorrow, Friday, just means more stuff, however peculiar and unexpected. A new quotidian. Somebody’s future, somebody else’s past.
- The Penguin Blog: In Cyberspace everyone can hear you scream thepenguinblog.typepad.com
When we first started dabbling in Second Life we quickly realized that something interesting Penguin could do would be to bring William Gibson into this strange new place, a place he seemed to have predicted and described years ago...
- In Cyberspace everyone can hear you scream penguinukbooks.wordpress.com
Over the next few weeks – to celebrate and, yes, promote his new novel Spook Country – we’re planning a range of William Gibson activities in Second Life.
- Observer | Modern boys and mobile girls observer.guardian.co.uk
by William Gibson, Sunday April 1, 2001
By William Gibson (Sept 2001)