The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.

I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.

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

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.