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October 14, 2004
William Gibson is Back
William Gibson, the visionary novelist generally considered to be the originator of the culture of "cyberpunk" and the author of such modern classics as Neuromancer and Johnny Mnemonic, is once again blogging his thoughts. And, in classic Gibson style, pulling no punches.
In the days after 9-11 I often took comfort in thinking of this man and the ideas he represented. When asked what I thought the United States would or could do in response to the attacks, I surprised friends by saying that I believed the US military's intelligentsia already understood the true nature of the conflict better than the enemy did.
One actually has to be something of a specialist, today, to even begin to grasp quite how fantastically, how baroquely and at once brutally fucked the situation of the United States has since been made to be.
Posted by bcoffee at October 14, 2004 11:43 PM
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