The thing people are missing about the jackpot is that’s it’s easily 300 years long, started at least 100 years ago, and we’re just reaching the point where we notice that. https://t.co/kGt9IugXct
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) March 9, 2020
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We’ve never had a cultural model for an apocalypse that lasts for a century or two. We don’t even know how to make a movie or a pop song about such a slow catastrophe.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) August 25, 2019
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The Facsimile Machine, rejected by multiple publishers in the mid 1960s , before its author finally abandoned the ms, was a shockingly prescient but fundamentally undramatic anticipation of fax technology.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) July 7, 2019
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Fascists in a democracy demand the right of free speech, but once in power will absolutely, definitively, not grant it to anyone other than themselves. That’s their trick and they know it perfectly well.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) November 3, 2018
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To suffix things “-punk” now guarantees them a cozy sub-genre status, thereby protecting the status quo from whatever genuine conceptual threat they might otherwise have posed. Punk is sheer conceptual threat, punching up. https://t.co/cnnK6dBH3V
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) October 6, 2018
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All imagined futures lacking recognition of anthropogenic climate-change will increasingly seem absurdly shortsighted. Virtually the entire genre will be seen to have utterly missed the single most important thing we were doing with technology.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) August 18, 2018
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I lost 2K followers in the bot-purge.
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) July 13, 2018
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