<p>William Gibson has posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/2003_05_01_archive.asp#200322370" >Good reading</a> if you have the time.</p>
<p>William Gibson is an SF author often credited as the ‘father of cyberpunk’. I read shitloads of SF but <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425190455/qid=1053568075/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-2849343-4622421?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Idoru</a> is the only Gibson novel I’ve finished… that was in high school and after reading the blog post I’m thinking I should re-examine his works.</p>
<p>Not because I completely buy his vision of the future but because I am now perhaps a bit more capable of digesting the format in which he depicts it. </p>
<p>I generally cringe, knowing I should not, when pundits describe the internet as an “unprecedented driver of change”. </p>
<p>I don’t know if it is exactly incorrect but it certainly reeks of “we are at the cusp of a new age” thinking which every generation has likely been guilty of in some way…</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>