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William Gibson on his Tech Life and Latest Novel

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the far-away-and-personal dept.

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.'"

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  1. Tech Nation Interview by zedge · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's also a pretty good interview with
    Gibson on Tech Nation here
    http://www.technation.com:8080/ramgen/021004 _2.rm

  2. The Man in the High Castle by joepa · · Score: 5, Informative

    The dire thing that multinational globalization seems to be doing is reducing the amount of genuine stuff in the world and replacing it with imitation genuine stuff.

    To speak of visionaries, this is actually an important theme in PKD's The Man in the High Castle. Of course, even PKD had a tendency to (unknowingly?) refashion ideas that were first put into writing by Plato and Aristotle. I guess it is true, in some sense, that there is nothing new under the sun.

  3. Ah, but there is another . . . by The+Mad+Duke · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Fact Checkers at the Philly Inq missed something: there is another movie based on a Gibson short story - "The New Rose Hotel". Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and the delectable (OMFG where does that tattoo end) Asia Argento. The film was a commercial failure - it's rather slow and amateurish, but it's much better than that awful Keanu/Ice-T mess. I have the DVD right here in my sweaty little hand. Excuse me, gotta go watch Asia in the swimming pool again. Oh, and many thanks to my old buddy Marrow who gave me his copy.

    --
    -The Mad Duke