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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

...the sci-fi writer William Gibson...

For those who dont know:

If the quote sounds very cyberpunk (techno futuristic corporate dystopia) it is because William Gibson is the father of the cyberpunk genre.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

And did it by boldly having no understanding of computers at the time which is why all the tech is so different from a lot of other scifi. I recently got through my decade long Asimov kick and am slowly working through Gibson now