What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.
William GibsonI worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?
William GibsonThree in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.
William GibsonThe designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
William GibsonIf youโre fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you donโt know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know oneโs own culture.
William Gibson