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William Gibson on his Tech Life and Latest Novel
An anonymous reader writes "The Philadelphia Inquirer is running a brief article on William Gibson. In it he discusses his tech life, the ad that inspired Neuromancer, and his latest book, Pattern Recognition. He says, 'Between my wife and daughter who still lives at home, I'm always the one with the slowest computer. I don't find that being really up on all the latest tech ever does me any good.'"
He's running a 286, and that copy of MS Word 2.0 is suiting him just fine.
Don't know about you, but I can type faster than I can dictate... have you tried using BOTH hands?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
" I realized no one had tried to write a science-fiction novel as if Lou Reed and David Bowie were writing it."
I suppose you could say that about a lot of things-
we need more software that was written as if Lou Reed and David Bowie had written it
You mean it should be depressing even though you have a million flashy skins to choose from?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Also, you can't use voice recognition in a cafe.
Sure you can:
The moon rose over the dark warrens of the urban sprawl that emanated from the city's bright center what's the difference between a latte and a cappucino hey can you keep it down I'm trying to write a novel here a latte is basically a cappuccino with more milk oh then I'll have a latte hey I asked you to keep it down well excuse me this is a cafe you know hey phil how's it going could you please be quiet too I'm trying to write my novel geeze oh hey yeah I'm a writer, just working on my book are you here alone can I buy you a cup of coffee oh I see you don't go for the artistic types fine she'll be sorry when I'm a published writer damn stuck up girls
Talk about using a sledghammer to kill a fly. Keanu's brain could be uploaded to an old 5 1/4, single-sided, 160K floppy....
you are not truly a Nerd until you have hacked the Garbage file of a Gibson. You never know what you'll find. Rumor has it that that is where the leaked Windows code is from.