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Pattern Recognition
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition...
Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet — a world-renowned “coolhunter” who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet — footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
Still haunted by the memory of her missing father — a Cold War security guru who disappared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 200l — Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing — and compelling — as the twenty-first century promises to be...
Cover illustration by Benita Raphan
Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet — a world-renowned “coolhunter” who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet — footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
Still haunted by the memory of her missing father — a Cold War security guru who disappared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 200l — Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing — and compelling — as the twenty-first century promises to be...
Cover illustration by Benita Raphan
367 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 3, 2003
About the author
William Gibson
327 books15.5k followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the term cyberspace in 1982 and popularized it in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.
While his early writing took the form of short stories, Gibson has since written nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, academia, cyberculture, and technology.
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William Gibson. (2007, October 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:30, October 19, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...
William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the term cyberspace in 1982 and popularized it in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.
While his early writing took the form of short stories, Gibson has since written nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, academia, cyberculture, and technology.
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William Gibson. (2007, October 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:30, October 19, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...
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January 19, 2025
Jag har läst den förut, men mindes inte mer än bara att av alla märken så är Tommy Hilfiger det mest förhatliga. Nu när jag läser om är det inte dåligt, men inte en av mina Gibsonfavoriter. Jag kan tänka mig att den var bra när det kom ut, men jag tycker det åldras sämre än hans framtids-scifi, även när tiden har utvisat att framtiden inte blev som han sa, det är på något sätt mer ok, för det han i de fallen sa eventuellt kunde bli var en intressant kommentar på hur det var då, emedan hans scifi-tolkning av 2002 nu i efterhand istället rätt så tydligt inte är hur 2002 var, även om det då kanske kändes som att det var det, och var på väg att bli det ännu mer. Effekten på mig blir att storyn kämpar med trovärdighet (ett ryskt maffiadrivet fängelse fullt med fångar som ”renderar” film?), och att hans inte jättesubtila poänger om förhållandet mellan konst och kommersialism, som då kanske kändes träffande, nu istället framstår som konservativa på ett sätt som jag inte annars associerar med hans böcker. I och för sig är det också tydligt att det hela väldigt mycket är en reaktion, kanske ganska personlig, på 9/11, och det tillåter jag honom förstås gärna, och jag kan se att det måste ha varit svårt att inte förankra sig i just det just då.
July 17, 2019
Det kändes väldigt tydligt att den här boken kom ut 2005, när "coolhunters" och varumärken överlag var det hetaste som fanns alla kategorier. Antingen att älska eller att hata. Huvudpersonen är allergisk mot varumärken (lol) och av-brandar alla sina tillhörigheter genom att pilla bort eller täcka över varumärket. Kul läsning om man vill vara nostalgisk över adbusting och No Logo, annars är jag lite skeptisk.
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