[Air-l] Re: [CITASA] origin of gibson quote

[Eszter Hargittai]

I tried:

http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001334.html

Eszter

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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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