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U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq’s reconstruction after the start of the war.U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the... more
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Coyle had an interesting point about economics being more speculative than science fiction. Doctorow set one of the themes for the evening by taking about his next novel, which will be sort of an anti-Cormac, where people in a disaster scenario actually help each other out. He hates that meme where disaster brings out the worst in everyone, On that, Doctorow and Stevenson had one of their few agreements of the evening. Coyle also made an interesting point about Steampunk—it represents a nostalgia for the Victorian era as a time of optimism about the ability of technology to handle the future. Gibson, as is his wont these days, pointed out that Science Fiction writers actually haven’t been very good at predicting the future.Coyle had an interesting point about economics being more speculative than science... more
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Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More |Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a... more
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Web 2.0 evangelist Stowe Boyd shares his views on the myths, realities and future of web 2.0 and enterprise: Crowd sourcing innovation - drawing on the smarts distributed across the company and outside in the user community - is another big bang that companies need to be exploring.Web 2.0 evangelist Stowe Boyd shares his views on the myths, realities and future of... more
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Playwright William Gibson, whose "The Miracle Worker" won awards and thrilled audiences with its hopeful tale of the teaching of deaf and blind Helen Keller, died at age 94 this week in Massachusetts.
Gibson died on Tuesday, a representative of the Finnerty & Stevens Funeral Home in Great Barrington said on Friday. The cause of death was not disclosed.Playwright William Gibson, whose "The Miracle Worker" won awards and... more
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Interview of William Gibson for the release of "Spook country", his last book.
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The Difference Engine explores a world in which Charles Babbage built a practical mechanical computer in the mid-19th century. Britain is going through both the Industrial and Information Revolutions simultaneously. The book combines Sterling's wildman inventiveness with Gibson's brooding, streetwise characters, both shoved back one and a half centuries into an obsessively-detailed and weirdly-transmogrified London of 1855.The Difference Engine explores a world in which Charles Babbage built a practical... more
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Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August-September 2002 the story is about Cayce Pollard, a 32 year old marketing consultant with a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action follows her from London to Tokyo to Moscow as she seeks the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet.
Written in 2001 and 2002 much of the novel was changed after the September 11, 2001 attacks because the main character's background, providing some of her motivation, was already set in New York City in 2001. The attacks are used as a motif representing a transition to the new century. The central theme examines the desire to detect patterns or meaning in life and the risks of apophenia, or finding patterns in meaningless data. Other themes include the cultural familiarity with brand names and the tensions between originality and monoculture, and between art and commercialization.
It is Gibson's eighth novel, but the first to be set in the contemporary world. Like his previous work, it has been classified as postmodern and science fiction, with the action unfolding as a thriller plot line. Reviewers compared this novel with Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 as post-structuralist detective stories. The book peaked at #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list. Critics approved of the writing but found some of the language distracting and the plot unoriginal.Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in... more
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Boing Boing: Amazon has just published a lengthy interview with William Gibson about his forthcoming novel Spook Country...Gibson holds forth on "writing in the age of Google," advancing the hypothesis that the Internet is more stimulus than distraction for the working writer. Boing Boing: Amazon has just published a lengthy interview with William Gibson about... more
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