You Did, Eszter! And maybe one of your wonderful blog readers will help. Lorraine Uikens, _What Smart TrainersKnow_. But the Uikens training source seems unlikely, and the citation itself is weird p. 15): ... training needs is much more common in Europe than it is in the United States (ASTD, 1999). Additionally, as author William Gibson (personal communication, November 1999) likes to say, "The future is already here; it's just unevenly distributed." Thus, a possible future ... The "likes to say" sounds like someone told Ms. Uikens that Gibson has said this. BTW, if anyone is into this sort of chance, I strongly recommend Robert Merton's "Shandian" account, _On the Shoulders of Giants_. 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 _____________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Eszter Hargittai wrote:
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:27:57 -0500 (EST) From: Eszter Hargittai <eszter@Princeton.EDU> To: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Cc: communication and information technology section asa <citasa@mit.edu>, aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: Re: [CITASA] origin of gibson quote
I tried:
http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001334.html
Eszter
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Barry Wellman wrote:
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 _____________________________________________________________________
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