…somebody I'd like to introduce. I think the two great, great, hot writers right now in America, a man named William Gibson, who wrote Duramax here, and a wonderful, intelligent, witty, important young woman named Jane Lillard. Jane, where's Jane? Jane, there…

…have discovered and then colonized and industrialized the info-world. That is the world of digital information. You may have heard about William Gibson talking about the info-world and cyberspace, but do you know what it is? It's the world that you see in…

…was written by William Burroughs. The third was written by Thomas Hitchens, Gravity's Rainbow. And the fourth was written by William Gibson. And I can sincerely tell you that Neuromancer, Cop Zero, and Monoliths Overdrive by William Gibson gave you what I…

…the fourth was written by William Gibson. And I can sincerely tell you that Neuromancer, Cop Zero, and Monoliths Overdrive by William Gibson gave you what I think would be very precise, accurate, street smarts, nitty gritty, down and dirty, real life, get…

…able to put these words together. Now, I can't summarize the economics, the politics, the culture, the decadence, the adventures that Gibson predicts will happen, except to say this, that two things about it. Most of his heroes are called cyberpunks, or…

…of Gibson's heroes do that. They also jack in to the outer digital world. And it's kind of a thought-provoking world that Gibson suggests, because it is true. Uh-oh. Oh, yeah. Right now, the average American asshole prefers to spend 7.4 hours jacked into…

…bodies and thin bodies, they're going, sure, I mean, they're just not going to like skirt fashion. I don't agree with that. Gibson, Gibson, I tell you, Gibson, you can read Gibson. Gibson has this one throwaway line about this bartender in this Japanese…

…and thin bodies, they're going, sure, I mean, they're just not going to like skirt fashion. I don't agree with that. Gibson, Gibson, I tell you, Gibson, you can read Gibson. Gibson has this one throwaway line about this bartender in this Japanese bar. He…

…they're going, sure, I mean, they're just not going to like skirt fashion. I don't agree with that. Gibson, Gibson, I tell you, Gibson, you can read Gibson. Gibson has this one throwaway line about this bartender in this Japanese bar. He said, in an age…

…they're just not going to like skirt fashion. I don't agree with that. Gibson, Gibson, I tell you, Gibson, you can read Gibson. Gibson has this one throwaway line about this bartender in this Japanese bar. He said, in an age of affordable beauty, his…

…just not going to like skirt fashion. I don't agree with that. Gibson, Gibson, I tell you, Gibson, you can read Gibson. Gibson has this one throwaway line about this bartender in this Japanese bar. He said, in an age of affordable beauty, his ugliness…

…Japanese bar. He said, in an age of affordable beauty, his ugliness went emblematic. I mean, that's just one line from Gibson. Boy, he's got a thousand days. Any more? What happened to your project with him? The Neuromancer Project. The Neuromantic Project,…

…involved Keith Haring and Bro Bair, the wonderful unit artists and all this in Pasadena. And script by William Burroughs, script by Gibson, script by me. And we're going to tell you a little script from Huxley, too. They said they were quite ready for…

…have discovered and then colonized and industrialized the info world. That is the world of digital information. You may have heard about William Gibson talking about the info world and cyberspace, but do you know what it is? It's the world that you see in…

…was written by William Burroughs. The third was written by Thomas Hitchin, Gravity's Rainbow. And the fourth was written by William Gibson. And I can sincerely tell you that Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson give you what…

…fourth was written by William Gibson. And I can sincerely tell you that Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson give you what I think to be very precise, accurate, street smarts, nitty gritty, down and dirty, real life, get your…

…able to put these words together. Now, I can't summarize the economics, the politics, the culture, the decadence, the adventures that Gibson predicts will happen. except to say this, that two things about it. Most of his heroes are called cyberpunks, or…

…oh, shit, here I am again. But you don't understand about it. The point about your 21st century future, and as illustrated by Gibson, is that in the 21st century, any literate person will have logged an enormous amount of time inside their own brain. So…

…Robert Heinlein, to which you were alive in 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…

…which you were alive in 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 and look to the…

…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 and look to the new technology. I love you. My vision of that is…

…a lot of them. Bruce Sterling. But the man that really has kind of caught all of our attention is a man named William Gibson in Vancouver. who wrote a book called Neuromancer, and it's about science fiction, a book about the world could be in 20 years.…

…Neuromancer, Camp Zero, and a collected book called Burning Chrome. And a certain... philosophy is there if you can... He did, because Gibson would laugh, hey, man, I'm just writing, you know, using stuff for you to read. He would decline and deny the…

…the 80s, of course, by my wife, Barbara, and my son, Zach, who's been here. Intellectually, there's a man named William Gibson who's written a book called Neuromancer. He started a whole new literary movement called Cyberpunk. It's about... using electronic…

…your own purposes, your own whim, your own fantasy, your own personal growth, as a tool for you to be performing philosophers. William Gibson and the book Neuromancer has changed my life in the 80s, and I'm glad to pay tribute to William Gibson. Now,…

…William Gibson and the book Neuromancer has changed my life in the 80s, and I'm glad to pay tribute to William Gibson. Now, actually, Timothy, you're a popularizer and an entertainer, but basically, you're a philosopher-scientist. I mean, you're a very…

…to describe this ability to to create new universes. We talk about virtual reality or artificial reality. Our prophet William Gibson has described the digital matrix, the consensual hallucination of all human knowledge. Third Autodesk is called cyberspace, and…

…language of Barcelona is not Spanish. It's Catalan. And I'm on the panel of the heavy duty writers and doctors, including William Gibson. And it went all through some very smart ass French woman with obvious Marxist predilections. I didn't know that guy…