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William Gibson wonders why many young people lack a clear sense of where they come from. He describes himself as an anthropologist, fascinated by the obsessions people wear and live. He also notes that everywhere people wake up and work to earn a living, shaping their own cultures.

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Some people dote on contemplating disasters.

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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

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Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

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The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.

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I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

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In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

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I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is.…

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I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for…

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I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to…

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I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders…

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I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be…

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We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then…

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I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become…

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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…

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There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead…

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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is…

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I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I…

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I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo,…

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One of the things I have taken for granted, in terms of how technology works in the world, is the people that…

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Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having…

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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to…

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Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to…

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You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's…

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Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of…

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I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have…

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People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

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The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As…

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I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows,…

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All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that…

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Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still…

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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to…

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'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the…

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I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers…

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I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I…

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I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use…

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I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some…

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