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

[Barry Wellman]

You Did, Eszter! And maybe one of your wonderful blog readers will
help.
Lorraine Uikens, _What Smart TrainersKnow_.

But the Uikens training source seems unlikely, and the citation itself is
weird p. 15):

... training needs is much more common in Europe than it is in the United
States (ASTD, 1999). Additionally, as author William Gibson (personal
communication, November 1999) likes to say, "The future is already here;
it's just unevenly distributed." Thus, a possible future ...

The "likes to say" sounds like someone told Ms. Uikens that Gibson has
said this.

BTW, if anyone is into this sort of chance, I strongly recommend Robert
Merton's "Shandian" account, _On the Shoulders of Giants_.

 Barry
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Eszter Hargittai wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:27:57 -0500 (EST)
> From: Eszter Hargittai <eszter at Princeton.EDU>
> To: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
> Cc: communication and information technology section asa <citasa at mit.edu>,
>      aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [CITASA] origin of gibson quote
>
> I tried:
>
> http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001334.html
>
> Eszter
>
> ---
> http://www.eszter.com
>
> 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
> >  _____________________________________________________________________
> >
> >   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
> >  _____________________________________________________________________
>