william gibson transcript concerning mass media

William Gibson has posted a transcript of a recent talk he gave.

Good reading if you have the time.

William Gibson is an SF author often credited as the ‘father of cyberpunk’. I read shitloads of SF but Idoru is the only Gibson novel I’ve finished… that was in high school and after reading the blog post I’m thinking I should re-examine his works.

Not because I completely buy his vision of the future but because I am now perhaps a bit more capable of digesting the format in which he depicts it.

I generally cringe, knowing I should not, when pundits describe the internet as an “unprecedented driver of change”.

I don’t know if it is exactly incorrect but it certainly reeks of “we are at the cusp of a new age” thinking which every generation has likely been guilty of in some way…

Thoughts?