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| | [ t e c h n o \ c u l t u r e ] : Inventor of cyberspace steps back to the present |
 | | I am sitting talking to the writer William Gibson - the epitome of gritty tech street cred; a kind of cyber-literary Lou Reed in his hard-bitten coolness - and the conversation has turned to his belief that emerging technologies are what shape future history, not politics, not wars, not philosophies. |
 | | Mr Gibson shows a flicker of a smile and probably thinks the comment was deliberate, a small gesture of homage. |
 | | Mr Gibson's writings run deep, forming cyberculture's bedrock, influencing filmmakers, novelists, technologists, academics, and thousands of ordinary people who stumble into one of his novels and find they start thinking about technology, about computers and their uses, about the present and the future, in new ways. |
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