Tue 28 Aug 2007
William Gibson: Farewell “Cyber”
Tuesday, Aug 28th, 2007 at 5:44 amCategories: Language; Technology; Gibson, William
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“I’m often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite, or as a raving technophile. I’ve always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.”
“Cyberspace” as a term is sort of over. It’s over in the way that after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix “-electro” to make things cool, because everything was electrical. “Electro” was all over the early 20th century, and now it’s gone. I think “cyber” is sort of the same way. The things that aren’t cyberspace seem to comprise a smaller set than things that are.
William Gibson: Link
Interviewed by Noel Murray: August 22nd, 2007
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