[Air-l] origin of gibson quote

[Ren Reynolds]

Got it!

This is something that has said. If you want to cite him saying it, you
can use this: 

NPR 
Talk of the Nation 
30 November 1999 
Time code: 11 min 55 seconds
Link: discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1067220

Exact quote (from this broadcast): 

"As I've said many times: the future is already here; it's just not very
evenly distributed."

Ren
www.renreynolds.com
terranova.blogs.com



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Barry Wellman
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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)"

 Barry
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