Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.
William GibsonI'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.
William GibsonAs a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
William GibsonWe are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
William Gibson