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[burnett AT pobox.com]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Evan Zimmerman wrote:

> 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.

You're probably thinking of the film _No Maps For These Territories_. I 
own it, but haven't watched it since I got the film last year or so. 

Steve B

> 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