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William Gibson
Personal blog · williamgibsonblog.blogspot.comculturewriting
William Gibson writes Gibson Blog, a personal blog at williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com about culture and writing. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2010, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link William Gibson's long-running blog archive, including travel notes and posts on technology and the future. One commenter called the seven years of posts engrossing enough to lose an hour and a half to.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
It has the vibe (aesthetics), like most modern "cyberpunk" works. The tech, hacking, drugs, and weird AI were mostly the setting for the main themes of corporate power and how technology enabled new forms of control/manipulation. When an article compared William Gibson's visions to Second Life, he rejected the notion explicitly[1]: But as Gully Jimson says, in The Horse's Mouth, "It wasn't the vision I had." Neither…
Comment linking /2007/03/
on “CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)”Submitted William Gibson on Blade Runner (2003) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou're a legend. I've already lost an hour and a half reading these posts. There are 7 years of them! "In Pattern Recognition, the only physical environments I can think of that evoke Cornell boxes are the basement arcade off Portobello Road, where Cayce sees the book’s first Michelin Man, and Boone’s ex-girlfriend’s rather too perfect apartment in Hongo, and, possibly, Baranov’s fetid caravan. None of these are fel…
Comment linking /2003/01/
on “William Gibson is a literary genius”Perhaps my favorite piece of Gibson. It's echoed with me every time I travel for... 18 years now? "Tuesday, February 04, 2003 OUT AND ABOUT, WITHOUT A LAPTOP Day two, still not very far from home but starting to see that blogging on the fly and in internet cafes is probably not the best way to keep this updated. Though on the other hand I suspect I get to see more things because I don't travel with a camera. In the…
Comment linking /2003/02/?m=1
on “William Gibson is a literary genius”Gibson also wrote on how our abilities to predict the future are superbly limited in his 2003 essay In The Visegrips Of Dr Satan: http://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2003/01/?m=1#90248174
Comment linking /2003/01/?m=1
on “William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (2019)”The coolest part about that I learned recently while looking into bomber jackets: it turns out life now imitates art, as Buzz Rickson got so many queries they asked Gibson for permission to make the black bomber jacket he describes in the novel (Gibson had misremembered the color). So a few years later, you could go and buy a William Gibson Rickson bomber jacket: https://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/ Belie…
Comment linking /2005/12/
on “Useless design features in modern products”Thanks, that was great. Found on his blog http://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2003_01_01_archive.htm...
Comment linking /2003_01_01_archive.html
on “The Future of Privacy”
