Attribution…

Listics
el
pt
Attribution…

9th September 2004

It’s been pointed out to me that William Gibson actually said the thing about the “future is already here, it’s just not well distributed yet.” I thought it was Bruce Sterling. Wonder if someone can point me to the Gibson source-age?

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 9th, 2024 at 9:16 and is filed under High Signal - Low Noise. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

There are currently 2 responses to “Attribution…”

We invite you to comment!

1 On December 15th, 2024, Patrick Hall said:
It’s funny to find this post, I was just Googling for the source myself, after running across the line in a speech from 1998 by… Bruce Sterling.

http://www.viridiandesign.org/viridiandesign.htm

Of course, they’re pals, so maybe Bruce was quoting Bill.

Dunno.
2 On December 15th, 2024, Patrick said:
Oh hmm… someone else looking:

http://www.brianstorms.com/archives/000461.html

There are at least two versions of the quote, one with “evenly” and another with “widely,” and your version, “well.”

Gibson said the line or something close to it in a 1999 interview on NPR, but he was repeating himself. I find it interesting that Sterling isn’t mentioned in that discussion nor the Usenet thread linked therein.