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

[MERLYNA LIM]

Hi Barry,
I just found an older one.. from 1998..
you may want to look for Papow's book.

here it is:

"The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed." (William 
Gibson; as cited in Jeffrey Papow, 1998, Enterprise.com: Market 
Leadership in the Information Age, page 123) [ps: Dr. Papow is President 
and CEO of Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

copied from: http://www.csuchico.edu/~curban/1998-99LPP.html

best,
merlyna

Barry Wellman wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> The Gibson quote hunt is mostly over.
> 
> Ren Reynolds and Ellen Pozzi both pointed me to an NPR Talk of The Town
> (US radio) broadcast in which William Gibson uttered the following
> sentence:
> 
> "As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not
> very evenly distributed."
> 
> This is hard. This exists. It is citable.
> However, note the "As I've said many times,..." which means there should
> be earlier citations. Although I've stopped looking.
> 
> Here's the coordinates as supplied by Ren:
> 
> NPR Talk of the Nation
> 30 November 1999
> Timecode: 11min 55sec
> Link: discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1067220
> 
> I found a different URL, from Ellen's info:
> www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgld=5&prgDate=30-Nov-1999
> 
> Thanks to all those who contributed to the treasure hunt, even those who
> insisted on the false Economist leads. (Economist was just attributing to
> Gibson himself, without interviewing WG).
> 
>  Barry
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