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[Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>]

I recall that too -- there's actually a movie that's just a long
interview with him where he discusses that. Pretty worthwhile stuff.
It's available on Netflix is you search for gibson I believe -- no
idea what the title was.


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:27:30 -0400 (EDT), burnett AT pobox.com
<burnett AT pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Sil Greene wrote:
> 
> > The Ender series talked a lot about about the Nets; the Shadow series even
> > moreso.  It's interesting to see how his descriptions of the technology
> > has changed as we (the overall society) get used to our own 'Net.  I
> > haven't read it in a long time, but I don't believe the Ender series used
> > the word "server" /anywhere/.
> 
> On a related topic, I recall an interview with William Gibson where he
> comments that he completely failed to predict the ubiquity of cellphones,
> and that the presence of cellphones in _Neuromancer_ would completely
> alter or destroy the structure of the novel. (I'm paraphrasing from memory
> here).
> 
> regards,
> Steve B
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