c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…can talk more softly or you can listen louder, but the mic shouldn't be turned up anymore. Cyberspace is something that William Gibson wrote about in the book neuromancer. I don't know whether that's over here and people have read that yet. Read…
…Gibson wrote about in the book neuromancer. I don't know whether that's over here and people have read that yet. Read neuromancer by William Gibson. It is a book about a terribly utopian time in the future. I mean at that point I hope we're doing better…
…information is stored as though it had been and people enter into it and manage information from within it. That's called cyberspace. William Gibson, at the time that he wrote about this had never seen a computer network, did not use a computer, so he…
…based, more magical, more shamanic, more gestalt kind of historical mode, would I be interested, would I buy. Well if you like William Gibson, you should give Greg Egan a try. Neuromancer came out in 1984. How long ago is that? 14 years, hard to believe.…
…Robert Heinlein? I wish he were alive. And here, Robert Heinlein he says Robert Heinlein, he was an air force admiral. William Gibson how about William Gibson? How can we have a meeting without William Gibson? Anyway, a lot's going to happen. Stay sane,…
…he were alive. And here, Robert Heinlein he says Robert Heinlein, he was an air force admiral. William Gibson how about William Gibson? How can we have a meeting without William Gibson? Anyway, a lot's going to happen. Stay sane, look for new technology…
…says Robert Heinlein, he was an air force admiral. William Gibson how about William Gibson? How can we have a meeting without William Gibson? Anyway, a lot's going to happen. Stay sane, look for new technology and we love you. My vision of that is that…
…the dominant language of the west, although this is a possibility. Certainly, if any of you are familiar with the fiction of William Gibson and if you're not I urge it upon you this is some of the most exciting science fiction being written. He pictures…
…you don't choose printed options you move in a symbolic representation of three dimensional space. Well again to mention William Gibson and his novels, what he imagines is simply a larger version of this conventionalized symbolic representation of three…
…ago I talked to you on the Roy Science fiction I'd never read it and you were very nice enough to give me the name of William Gibson and a guy named Ian Watson the two of them I find gibson to be terrific. What's not so good I wonder if you could…
…going to call that fex I think he has another name for it now which is slightly more romantic, or we could go to the William Gibson term and call it the meat and we'll come back to that. And it's not important what's in island one or island two or…
…particularly in cyberpunk science fiction, is that this quality of dissociative identity is identified as a positive aspect in William Gibson repetitively you see the image of characters who are written by the loa of uddin, that they literally disassociate…
…the other person. If this doesn't go my way, it's going to get so weird for you it will be unbearable, so be forewarned. So William Gibson talked a lot about AI in his novels and one of the points that he makes that I think is very interesting is he…
…up to undergo this cultural compression and concrescence that the experience of the transcendental object is. If you haven't read William Gibson, you might give him a go. His anticipation of a cybernetic future is part of the anticipation of the…
…has anything to do with it I wish them luck. But this sort of notion you know the max headroom people and the William Gibson people have a very high tech take on this because they are interested in accentuating this tight blue jeans cyberpunk kind of…
…up to undergo this cultural compression and concrescence that the experience of the transcendental object is. If you haven't read William Gibson, you might give him a go. His anticipation of a cybernetic future is part of the anticipation of the…