Barry, you might try asking him yourself. His official website is at http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/ and there is a Contact Us link at the bottom of the discussion board.........Alex Kuskis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Wellman" <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> To: "communication and information technology section asa" <citasa@mit.edu>; "aoir list" <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 2:36 PM 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)"
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