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Linguistic Invaders From Mars

United States Today's idea: If you gauge the health of a literary form by its impact on language, a blogger argues, then there's no genre in better shape than science fiction. Associated Press William Gibson, neologist. Language | A million words in the English ...
Tue, Jun 16 | from New York Times

David Wisdom's views of Vancouver

Canada What he has is a remarkable collection of images of Vancouver, its buildings and its people – many of them long-time friends such as artists Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace and Rodney Graham and sci-fi writer William Gibson. The transparencies may have been ...
Wed, Jun 10 | from Globe and Mail

Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven

CA Several people in Neuromancer by William Gibson. Super-hacker Case meets his girlfriend Linda Lee, who was murdered in Chiba City, but her consciousness lives on in the cyber-matrix. And then he and his friends have to steal a ROM containing the ...
Sun, Jun 7 | from io9

New Web Series 'Purefold' Takes 'Blade Runner' and Runs

CA It's remarkable that Hollywood is getting friendly with CC licensing, but this is definitely something I have a wait-and-see attitude about. It reminds me of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and "cool hunters" at bars dropping the name of the best ...
Fri, Jun 5 | from Cinematical

Product re-placement, taking back advertising space for art

NY This virtual canvas is not too far removed from the 3D artists portrayed in William Gibson's "Spook Country" who build location specific installations, viewable through special equipment that creates a layer of virtual reality over the physical. ...
Sun, May 31 | from core77.com's design blog

Product design from the Godfather of Cyberpunk

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Fri, May 15 | from core77.com's design blog

MUSIC JUNKIE Review: The Future Will Come

NY “Accusations” and “Human Disaster,” like the recent novels of onetime cyberpunk sage William Gibson, portray a dystopian “future” that is also startlingly contemporary, submerged in eerie synth beats and simple verse/chorus/verse structures. ...
Thu, May 7 | from Brooklyn Daily Eagle

March 17, 1948: William Gibson, Father of Cyberspace

Most importantly, the story "Burning Chrome" marked the first appearance of the term cyberspace — which Gibson would later describe in No Maps for These Territories as an "evocative and essentially meaningless" buzzword that could serve as a cipher for ...
Mon, Mar 16 | from Wired News

Book Review: Daemon by Daniel Suarez

OH - Jan 23, 2009 Maybe this joystick-and-rad-guns stuff was hot when William Gibson published Neuromancer back in 1984. The very idea of cyberspace was cool back then. ...
Fri, Jan 23 | from Blogcritics

Cyberpunk Ergonomics: Best Position to Jack In

In his early cyberpunk works set in the Neuromancer universe, William Gibson envisioned hackers (cyberspace jockeys, cyber cowboys) jacking in into the matrix not seating in front of a computer, but lying down on their belly in a position resembling driving riding a high-powered moto...
Mon, Oct 13 | from Science Fiction Observer

"A cold civil war"

Is that where we're headed? William Gibson used the phrase a year or so back in his novel Spook Country; the Hyacinth Girl picked it up at her website; and I ran with it for a column north of the border. Now the Hyacinth Girl has returned to the topic. David Warren thinks another literary conc...
Sun, Oct 12 | from National Review Online Blogs

The Buzz Rickson "William Gibson" laptop bag

- Oct 11, 2008 The bags are drawn from the William Gibson line, which is inspired by the science fiction writer of the same name. "The collection features a shoulder bag ...
Sat, Oct 11 | from Wired News

Neuromancer

Yesterday I posted a note about what I’ve been reading and about Melissa Scott’s The Jazz, and in it I realized that I talked about William Gibson’s Neuromancer in comparison to Melissa’s book and I didn’t get into my thoughts on the Gibson.
Fri, Oct 3 | from tychoish

Podcast: Designing for Mobile Devices - an Interview with Jason Furnell

He tells us that without a vision, great minds can go to waste; and how high-fidelity wireframes can help communicate a simple vision. Jason's blog is 'the architecture of everything'. (jasonfurnell.wordpress.com) The William Gibson book is 'Spook Country'. (tinyurl.com/2a7mf9)
Fri, Sep 28 | from UXpod

August: 36 / 50 = 72%

36. Spook Country, William Gibson. Gibson's latest, and the closest to the present day he's set a story. Does this disqualify it from the science fiction category he helped to revitalize twenty years ago? Not necessarily. Gibson's works have always revolved around people's interactions w...
Sat, Sep 1 | from 50 Book Challenge

Theater Review: William Gibson's The Miracle Worker in Hoboken, New Jersey

The Miracle Worker closes on April 15th. The Hudson Theatre Ensemble presents The Miracle Worker by William Gibson: Please visit The Hudson Theatre Ensemble for more information.Joseph Arthur Clay is a 3rd grade schoolteacher and full-time lover of music, movies, theatre and art.
Sun, Apr 8 | from Blogcritics

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