William Gibson on Movies, Music, Media

automatic_jack writes "William Gibson gave a talk at the Directors' Guild of America's Digital Day last week. The text of it is up in his 'blog, and in it he says some intriguing things about the nature of the entertainment and media industries. There's a bit of a surprise conclusion at the end!"

Comments

Re:Surprise at the end?

[RLiegh]

you know all the geeks here have seen it already.

uh...yeah. Between that, and the way that the torlls were pathetically trying to spoil people with the ending for the two weeks leading to the premiere; I figured people would have the sophistication to see it was a joke...-1, troll...guess I was wrong.

Who cares about Gibson?

[What_about_CHOMSKY]

We really should be asking: What does CHOMSKY think about Hollywood?

How about a casting call for Neuromancer?

[LiberalApplication]

I realize this isn't exactly, or even close to on-topic, but I'm curious to see what Slashdotters have to say about this. I've always loved Neuromancer, as it was the first sci-fi book I had ever read and I've thanked God on many days that it was never made into a nightmarishly awful movie. But imagining for a moment that it were to be made into a decent flick, who would you cast to play the various characters from Neuromancer?

As for Case, I'm leaning towards Billy-Bob Thornton.

Re:Permanent history

[Hard_Code]

"Of course I'll be too long dead to find out."

Speaking of which, I can just imagine pages of Slashdot being preserved, antiqued, and hung in nice frames in the future, just as we frame "quaint" prints of 1840's newspapers proclaiming the wonders of "Magical Magnetic Belts" and "Rejuvinating Electric Hair Brushes".