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Science Fiction Inventions by William Gibson "Technovelgy.com is devoted to the creative inventions of science fiction authors and movie makers. Look for the Science Fiction Invention Category that interests you, the Glossary of Science Fiction Inventions, the Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions, or see what's New." Monday, September 11, 2006 07:00 p.m. |
Monday, September 11, 2006 06:54 p.m. | On accepting a London 2600 t-shirt
Monday, September 11, 2006 06:42 p.m. | "NoLogo.org Update: As many frequent readers will have noticed, NoLogo.org is on hiatus. We will resume regular site updates when Naomi returns from book leave and resumes writing regular columns in the fall of 2006." Monday, September 11, 2006 06:31 p.m. | "When asked if he was influenced by fellow Canadian Naomi Klein (author of No Logo), he replied that he had. He had seen a stack of copies of No Logo, and 'instead of reading the book in order to figure out what it was about, like a normal person, he had wondered off thinking no logo, no logo.' He went on to wonder what you would have to do in order to have no logos at all on your person. This was the origin of Cayce Pollard." Monday, September 11, 2006 06:27 p.m. | ". . . cool hunter and modern nomad par excellence Cayce Pollard travels so much she frets that 'her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic.'" Saturday, September 9, 2006 11:03 a.m. |
Scientific American: Turn Me On, Dead Man Saturday, September 9, 2006 10:53 a.m. |
Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:49 a.m. | "Mr. Kurzweil had the joint riveted with his view of our future. In addition to his many books and inventions Mr. K is a 'pattern recognition scientist.'" Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:38 a.m. | "I think the 9/11 thread allowed for the protag (kacee) to go to a deeper level of detachment that played into the over bearing theme of isolation and brand-influenced actions." Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:35 a.m. | in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks "TSA has begun developing a plan to train TSOs in behavior pattern recognition and to begin deploying trained individuals at high-risk airports. Last December, TSA piloted the use of behavior pattern recognition techniques at some ticket checker positions in ten airports (including Logan Airport in Boston, which began utilizing trained TSOs at ticket checker positions in September 2005). Each airport in the pilot utilized five to eight TSOs from that airport who had received classroom and on-the-job training in behavior pattern recognition techniques. If a passenger was identified as exhibiting behaviors indicative of fear, stress and/or deception, they were either referred for additional screening, or referred for selectee screening and an evaluation interview with a law enforcement officer." Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:32 a.m. | "I think you are right about the Dorotea/Cayce maneuver; and, about 9/11; but I’m extending the metaphor. Cayce mentions that she got the term from a semi-psychotic boyfriend, who may or may not have always acted on his fantasies of making Jack Moves; this, oddly enough, made me think of the first winning Survivor on the reality show of the same name: the gay guy who pranced around in the nude. Analysis afterward of his various tactics was tied to business practices of similar disruptive out-of-the-blue maneuvers. So, yes, it is a kind of blow to the solar plexus. However, the Jack Move can be effected in various ways in 5GW. Essentially, the effort of disruption can be a bit more hidden or ambiguous than the dramatic Michelin Man move or the 9/11 move — especially if secrecy is key." Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:20 a.m. | Pattern Recognition In The Bush Media Era "Gibson does get all of this. A one time Vietnam war resister, he is critical of the corporate system that Bush and Co. represent and serve." Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:16 a.m. | "The attack on the World Trade Center occurred when Gibson was well into writing 'Pattern Recognition.' Faced with the kind of question we all face now (is it weirder to see footage of New York City with the towers standing or with them gone?) he decided to weave 9/11 into the plot. He did so seamlessly, while communicating much of that event's shock value." Wednesday, September 6, 2006 08:10 a.m. | "Pattern Recognition is essentially a paint by numbers suspense thriller. Vague references to 9/11 and the main character's unexplained 'allergy' to corporate branding. There's a story - just not many ideas going on to think about." Wednesday, September 6, 2006 08:08 a.m. | "The 9-11 angle feels forced, almost suggesting that Gibson wanted to rush this book onto the market so as to be at the forefront of fabulists to incorporate it into their fiction. There's also something weirdly anachronistic in reading Gibson's depiction of today's internet, of modern-day cellphone/iPod/laptop chic." Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:59 a.m. | "Although 9/11 (an apocalyptic event if ever I saw one) is a springboard, I don't necessarily feel that its inclusion will date this book, or hinder it from standing the test of time. The farther I got into the novel, the harder it was for me not to be catapulted into the usual futuristic mindframe." Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:58 a.m. | "Today William Gibson posted a short piece he wrote on 20/9/2001 entitled 'Mr. Buk's Window.' Must read." Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:56 a.m. | "In Gibson’s view, 9-11 was the end of history; after it we are without a history, careening toward an unknown future without the benefit of a past---our lives before 9-11 are now irrelevant." Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:53 a.m. | "These are words whose value matches the secondary numeric value of another. For example, the date '9-11-2001' has a numeric value of 14 (9+1+1+2+0+0+1=14), the word 'Warning' has a numeric value of 86, and the word 'Martyr' has a numeric value of 95. If you add up the digits of 'Warning' (8+6=14) and 'Martyr' (9+5=14), the results equal the value of '9-11-2001.'" Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:50 a.m. | ". . . it started fitting together and it gave me somewhere to put what I was feeling about 9/11, for which I'm deeply grateful. And I'm so glad that I'm done with that material. I have this feeling every night when I go to bed: thank you, I'm done with that material because there's thousands of people all over this planet lying there thinking about the book they're going to have to write about it. I did mine." Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:47 a.m. | "Gibson wisely avoids addressing the import of 9/11 head on, but he somehow establishes a powerful correlative for it in Cayce's strange quest -- through the Tokyo red-light district and the Moscow underworld -- to find the anonymous filmmaker. In Gibson's eerie vision of our time, the future has come crashing upon us, fragmentary and undecipherable; as one character declares, 'We have no future because our present is too volatile.'" Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:44 a.m. | "I was about 100 pages into the book on Sept 10th. Then I got up on Sept. 11th and whoa --- nodal point! . . . When I came back to the manuscript, and went to my computer and opened the file, about three weeks after Sept. 11, and I saw that my protagonist's back story, that I'd been sort of interrogating and looking for and starting to find, was taking place right then -- her memories were of that autumn." Wednesday, September 6, 2006 07:40 a.m. |
Legal Name: Gibson, William Ford
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 11:46 a.m. | Irvine's 'Globalization & Post-9/11: Select Bibliography and Resources' "the consumption of identical cultural goods around the world (pop culture, entertainment)" Tuesday, September 5, 2006 11:29 a.m. | Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group "William Gibson is held by many to be a damn fine writer." Tuesday, September 5, 2006 11:27 a.m. | "What happened to the early 90s Cyber-Punk InterNet of the fictional future? Back when going on the InterNet meant putting on giant goggles and flying through a quasi-realistic cyber-realm with diodes as big as skyscrapers on city-sized circuit boards? Where is the future where InterNet users all wear mascara, leather, and extraneous buckles and use ice-cold cyber lingo, and the evil 40-something corporate executives wear ponytails and poon limousines on skateboards?" Tuesday, September 5, 2006 11:23 a.m. | "Speculative fiction is a term that includes both traditional science fiction and fantasy, but also stretches to address emerging forms such as 'magic realism,' 'metafiction,' and other still newer kinds of postmodern non-realistic narrative. Contemporary speculative fiction reaches beyond the confines of science fiction, and participates in the redefinition of postmodern narrative fiction in the process." Tuesday, September 5, 2006 11:20 a.m. | "This course will address the meeting of literature and technology through an examination of multimedia fiction, poetry, and criticism available on CD-ROM and the World Wide Web. In the current period of overlap between print culture and electronic culture, the nonlinear approach to reading and composing hypertext plays a formative role in conceptions of cyberspace and the information age." Tuesday, September 5, 2006 11:09 a.m. | "Like William Gibson in Pattern Recognition, Bruce Sterling is all too aware that real life — particularly since 9/11 — has taken so many bizarre turns in recent years that the idea of guys walking around in cheap sunglasses and spiky haircuts with SCSI ports in their necks is so 20 years ago." Thursday, August 31, 2006 09:33 a.m. | "The inclusion of 9/11 is a curious thing. See, the book was half done when 9/11 occurred, so it wasn't in the original intent of the story. WG had to do some rewriting, especially as summer 2002 approached, to keep the thing accurate. One early version of the thing had armored personnel carriers wandering london and armed soldiers at every intersection." Thursday, August 31, 2006 09:31 a.m. | William Gibson Bibliography / Mediagraphy "Just the facts, but far more complete than the other Johnny-come-lately "6 books and out" lists out there." Thursday, August 31, 2006 09:29 a.m. | "911 lit the fuze and blew the lid off" Thursday, August 31, 2006 09:27 a.m. | "Cayce finds herself enmeshed in an escalatingly strange conspiracy that may or may not have something to do with the disappearance of her father on 9-11-01." Thursday, August 31, 2006 09:25 a.m. | "Gibson's attempt to deal with the effects of 9/11 is only moderately successful. Part of his problem is that throughout the book he deals more the symbolic effect of 9/11 than with the terrorist attacks themselves. In fact, I don't think he uses the word "terrorist" at all during the entire novel. Gibson does get at the sense of what it was like to be in NYC in the days following the destruction of the WTC--the simultaneous pathos and nobility of the way no one covered up other people's "Missing" flyers while posting their own, the almost unbearable pain of not knowing whether or not a loved one had survived, the shell-shocked feeling shared by everyone in the city. But he really isn't interested in how the world really did, and not just symbolically, change after 9/11: how globalization looked radically different, much more dangerous, than it had before." Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:23 a.m. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The mystery of the footage dovetails for Pollard with the mystery of what happened to her father on 9/11, who had flown to NYC for unknown reasons the day before and was last seen getting into a taxi in midtown Manhattan at 7 a.m. on the morning of the attacks." Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:18 a.m. | "It is set very much in our aforementioned car-driving, Guiness-swilling, paper-wasting, TV-watching present, specifically about a year after the September 11 attacks." Friday, August 25, 2006 02:20 p.m. | "Another novel that deals at least peripheraly with 9/11 is William Gibson's Pattern Recognition." Friday, August 25, 2006 02:16 p.m. | The Literature and Film of September 11
"This course will explore some of the attempts in recent literature and film to come to grips with the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. Our discussion will begin with an examination of a number of works released in the years leading up to what many now view as this major turning point in both U.S. and world history. These works both attempt to make sense of the post-Cold War landscape of the 1990s, and seem to foreshadow in an uncanny fashion the events of 9/11. They will also raise significant questions about how we think about the nature of historical change itself. We will then turn our attention to readings and viewings that try to map the new social, political, and cultural landscape that seemed so quickly to set into place." Friday, August 25, 2006 02:08 p.m. | Four Reviews of Pattern Recognition ". . . searching for the jet-lagged, stretched, lost, mortal soul of the humanity in the world teeming with data . . ." Friday, August 25, 2006 02:03 p.m. | "It's a book haunted by the spectre of 9/11 and the uncertainty of the world thereafter . . . the uncertainty of the fabric of day-to-day life people began to feel following that event . . . people don't like uncertainty, don't like knowing that there's something we can't comprehend. And if we can't fit something into an existing pattern, then by golly we'll come up with one." Friday, August 25, 2006 01:59 p.m. | Just Not Evenly Distributed by Cory Doctorow "The Dreaded Rear Admiral Poindexter, Congress's favorite convicted felon, is still attempting to convince our lawmakers that they must be Totally Aware of Information, lest the scions of the LATE OSAMA BIN LADEN use our informational supercyberhighways to commit more uniquely mediagenic XXIst Century atrocities." Friday, August 25, 2006 01:54 p.m. | "Win Pollard, ex-security agent with probable CIA ties was last seen getting into a taxi in Manhattan on September 11, 2001." Friday, August 25, 2006 01:37 p.m. |
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