Got it! This is something that has said. If you want to cite him saying it, you can use this: NPR Talk of the Nation 30 November 1999 Time code: 11 min 55 seconds Link: discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1067220 Exact quote (from this broadcast): "As I've said many times: the future is already here; it's just not very evenly distributed." Ren www.renreynolds.com terranova.blogs.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: 16 February 2004 19:37 To: communication and information technology section asa; aoir list Subject: [Air-l] origin of gibson quote Folks, I can use a little bibliographic help. Wenhong Chen and I are at the end of writing a Digital Divide paper for the Blackwell Companion on Social Stratification. We want to use a quote attributed to William Gibson, "The future is already here; it's just unevenly distributed." Now the quote itself is widely posted on the web. But never with a specific reference to a page number. Sometimes, a web poster will say "As William Gibson said in _Neuroromancer_, `The future is ...' But I went thru Neuroromancer yesterday and couldn't find it (Ace original edition, 1984). Can anyone pin down the exact reference for this quote. Or is this an urban legend, oft repeated but never sourced? In which case we shall say "(attributed to William Gibson)" Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l