Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. - William Gibson 1 Share Now -
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. - William Gibson 2 Share Now -
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. - William Gibson 3 Share Now -
I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'. - William Gibson 4 Share Now -
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. - William Gibson 6 Share Now -
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. - William Gibson 7 Share Now -
I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them. - William Gibson 8 Share Now -
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. - William Gibson 9 Share Now -
'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way. - William Gibson 10 Share Now -
