Gibson on Futures and Writing

William Gibson (author of Neuromancer among many other fantastic books) spoke at this year's BEA about how the Future as we once knew it is over. We caught up with it and live in an eternal and evolving now.

In science-fiction — the great harbinger of the Future — stories about the Future rarely have really been. As he notes, "[I:]maginary futures are always, regardless of what the authors might think, about the day in which they're written." You can't comment on things that are in the distant ...