William Gibson on The Age of The Remix

Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 7, 2005 @05:18AM from the re-re-mixing dept.

wordisms writes "William Gibson of Neuromancer fame gives his thoughts on remix and innovation in the digital age, in a short essay at Wired Magazine entitled God's Little Toys. From the article: 'Our culture no longer bothers to use words like appropriation or borrowing to describe those very activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.'"

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Re:God's Little Toys by glen604 · 2005-07-07 06:31 · Score: 4, Informative

God's little toy was a floating camera in one of his books, that a character used to take footage of her life, and the life of people around her..
kind of fitting reference- remixing the video of your life, i guess.