“The internet is turning itself inside out.”
“I’m suspicious of influence. When people say who their influences are, I think that’s usually who they want people to see them as. What matters is not the conscious influences but the personal microcosm that you create for yourself as a reader.”
“We won’t talk about it [the internet], because it will have colonized everything.”
“It was interesting when people started using the word cyberspace. But what I’ve always been interested in is how it will disappear.”*
“‘The city changes faster than the human heart’–I think there’s an element of that in my work. It inherently saddens us all to some extent when the environment we grew up in goes away. It’s a particularly modern sensibility.”
“There’s not going to be any future, because things are happening too fast for us to afford one. There’s just going to be more and more stuff.”
*Gibson coined the term “cyberspace” in his 1982 short story “Burning Chrome.”
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