Cory Doctorow4d ago

William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things":

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson

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Show threadTrektor4d ago

@pluralistic
"the sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"

{*looked it up just now}

Show threadbigblen4d ago
@trrektor @pluralistic
is this one going to need a footnote in future explaining that not just black, or the words "No Signal" on a black background.
Show threadtuv
@bigblen have newer models switched to black already? You can get a pretty good idea about someone's age if they are thinking of an intense blue screen
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