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

[elijah wright]

there've been a couple of interesting threads about this in the past.

first, see this blog entry:

http://cyberdash.com/node/view/154


then, try this thread (linked from the blog entry), which has a number of
cites in it:


http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=10rl1tcq8oh77014mhtqof5jrnkqcskgg9%404ax.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dwilliam%2Bgibson%2Bdistributed%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D10rl1tcq8oh77014mhtqof5jrnkqcskgg9%25404ax.com%26rnum%3D1


It appears, to follow up the discussion, that the phrase may come from a
presentation given by bruce sterling and wm. gibson in 1993.
interestingly, sterling may have been the source of the utterance, not
gibson.

--elijah





On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, MERLYNA LIM wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:54:42 +0800
> From: MERLYNA LIM <merlyn at bdg.centrin.net.id>
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
> To: air-l at aoir.org, wellmann at chass.utoronto.ca
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Re: [CITASA] origin of gibson quote
>
> 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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