American - Writer | March 17, 1948 -
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
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All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
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I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.
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Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.
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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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Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
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I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.
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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
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