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William Gibson on Accelerating Change

William Gibson

William Gibson

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The truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly regular, maybe even exponential, basis. I think that’s something peculiar to our time. I don’t think our grandparents had to live with that.

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No Maps for These Territories, 2000

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