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William Gibson

(1927–2006) Ice Hockey Player Canada

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William Gibson was an ice hockey player from Canada, best known for The Miracle Worker.

Quick Facts About William Gibson

Born: April 22, 1927
Died: August 29, 2006
Nationality: Canada
Profession: Ice Hockey Player
Notable works: The Miracle Worker

About William Gibson

William Ford Gibson is an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, a category from which he has repeatedly distanced himself. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept, along with his usage of the "matrix", in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.

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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…

Attention

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“Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an…

Good Contract

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Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting…

Bohemian

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Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of…

Cities

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“She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet.…

Problems

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You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the…

Cab

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I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale…

Book

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Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to…

Because

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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…

Feelings

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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,…

Book

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“Of course,” he says, “we have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that…

Another day

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“Something he’d found and lost so many times. It belonged, he knew – he remembered – as she pulled him down, to…

Cowboy

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“He couldn’t remember when he hadn’t been able to remember, but sometimes he almost could. That was why he had built the…

Able Remember

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[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought…

Coming out

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“Our best analyst thinks it's not a tactical design. Something for mall ninjas… Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken…

Fashion

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

Admiration

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Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was…

Because

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That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a…

Application

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“And waking, once again, face smudged into Andrea's couch, the red quilt humped around her shoulders, smelling coffee, while Andrea hummed some…

Andrea

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I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or…

Appalachia

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“The future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the…

Eventually

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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as…

Bad dream

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“of data than of objects, seems a natural crossover figure in today’s interface of British and Japanese cultures. I see it in…

Japanese

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“Never hurt me. . . .” The voice was her own, lost and amazed, the voice of a child, and suddenly she was free, free…

Children

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The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have…

Behinds

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Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just…

About

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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil…

Evil

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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…

Exciting

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“Fox was quick to see how we could use you, but not sharp enough to credit you with ambition. But then he…

Children

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“And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped…

Exponential growth

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He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at…

Bed

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“I have often raised an eyebrow at hearing him sing, as I push a cart down some Safeway aisle, of the spiritual…

Certain age

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The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of…

Bookstore

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“She isn't feeling easy with any of this. She doesn't know quite what to do with Bigend's proposition, which has kicked her…

Therapist

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If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled…

Culture

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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…

Kind

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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…

America

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“Hollis blew gently on the thin tan island of foam afloat in her half pint of Guinness, to see it move, then…

Wondered Tasted

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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…

20th century

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"Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military…

Authenticity

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