Re: [Air-l] Re: [CITASA] origin of gibson quote
Folks, The Gibson quote hunt is mostly over. Ren Reynolds and Ellen Pozzi both pointed me to an NPR Talk of The Town (US radio) broadcast in which William Gibson uttered the following sentence: "As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed." This is hard. This exists. It is citable. However, note the "As I've said many times,..." which means there should be earlier citations. Although I've stopped looking. Here's the coordinates as supplied by Ren: NPR Talk of the Nation 30 November 1999 Timecode: 11min 55sec Link: discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1067220 I found a different URL, from Ellen's info: www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgld=5&prgDate=30-Nov-1999 Thanks to all those who contributed to the treasure hunt, even those who insisted on the false Economist leads. (Economist was just attributing to Gibson himself, without interviewing WG). 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 _____________________________________________________________________
Hi Barry, I just found an older one.. from 1998.. you may want to look for Papow's book. here it is: "The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed." (William Gibson; as cited in Jeffrey Papow, 1998, Enterprise.com: Market Leadership in the Information Age, page 123) [ps: Dr. Papow is President and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts) copied from: http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/1998-99LPP.html best, merlyna Barry Wellman wrote:
Folks,
The Gibson quote hunt is mostly over.
Ren Reynolds and Ellen Pozzi both pointed me to an NPR Talk of The Town (US radio) broadcast in which William Gibson uttered the following sentence:
"As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed."
This is hard. This exists. It is citable. However, note the "As I've said many times,..." which means there should be earlier citations. Although I've stopped looking.
Here's the coordinates as supplied by Ren:
NPR Talk of the Nation 30 November 1999 Timecode: 11min 55sec Link: discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1067220
I found a different URL, from Ellen's info: www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgld=5&prgDate=30-Nov-1999
Thanks to all those who contributed to the treasure hunt, even those who insisted on the false Economist leads. (Economist was just attributing to Gibson himself, without interviewing WG).
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 _____________________________________________________________________
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there've been a couple of interesting threads about this in the past. first, see this blog entry: http://cyberdash.com/node/view/154 then, try this thread (linked from the blog entry), which has a number of cites in it: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=10rl1tcq8oh77014m... It appears, to follow up the discussion, that the phrase may come from a presentation given by bruce sterling and wm. gibson in 1993. interestingly, sterling may have been the source of the utterance, not gibson. --elijah On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, MERLYNA LIM wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:54:42 +0800 From: MERLYNA LIM <merlyn@bdg.centrin.net.id> Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org To: air-l@aoir.org, wellmann@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: Re: [Air-l] Re: [CITASA] origin of gibson quote
Hi Barry, I just found an older one.. from 1998.. you may want to look for Papow's book.
here it is:
"The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed." (William Gibson; as cited in Jeffrey Papow, 1998, Enterprise.com: Market Leadership in the Information Age, page 123) [ps: Dr. Papow is President and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
copied from: http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/1998-99LPP.html
best, merlyna
Barry Wellman wrote:
Folks,
The Gibson quote hunt is mostly over.
Ren Reynolds and Ellen Pozzi both pointed me to an NPR Talk of The Town (US radio) broadcast in which William Gibson uttered the following sentence:
"As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed."
This is hard. This exists. It is citable. However, note the "As I've said many times,..." which means there should be earlier citations. Although I've stopped looking.
Here's the coordinates as supplied by Ren:
NPR Talk of the Nation 30 November 1999 Timecode: 11min 55sec Link: discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1067220
I found a different URL, from Ellen's info: www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgld=5&prgDate=30-Nov-1999
Thanks to all those who contributed to the treasure hunt, even those who insisted on the false Economist leads. (Economist was just attributing to Gibson himself, without interviewing WG).
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 _____________________________________________________________________
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