Visions of the future • William Gibson & James Gleick
LIVE from the NYPL - November 12, 2014.
William Gibson, the master of science fiction, returns to The New York Public Library to celebrate the publication of his novel The Peripheral, and discuss visions of the future with author and science historian James Gleick, whose works include Chaos: Making a New Science, and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. Media Sponsor: The Financial Times.
WILLIAM GIBSON is the is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, and Distrust That Particular Flavor. Neuromancer was the first novel to win the three top science fiction prizes-the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Gibson is credited with coining the term "cyberspace," and popularizing the concept of the Internet while it was still largely unknown. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife. His most recent novel, The Peripheral, will be published in October 2014.
JAMES GLEICK is the author of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His first book, Chaos, was a finalist for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and a national bestseller. He collaborated with the photographer Eliot Porter on Nature’s Chaos and with developers at Autodesk on Chaos: The Software. His other books include the best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton, both shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Faster and What Just Happened. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages.
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Oh! The Difference Engine guy! Loved that one!
gleick is very smart too. thanks
easier to listen to when speeded up to 1.5... and if that isn't cyberspace on the hoof, I'll eat my mouse.
Thanks so much for posting! Love hearing Gibson talk about his characters, if briefly. BUT I don't completely agree with his opinion on "happy endings are a matter of when you roll the credits." If the implication is that the hero will go on to live an average life, warts included, then that's a positive ending, as opposed to "then he collapsed into incurable insanity, having realized he'd killed his own baby son, was a ghost this whole time, and he loved Big Brother!"
He doesn't hate Mike Pondsmith for stealing so much from him. He understands that's how art works. Even understanding he borrowed elements of art from others also.
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La Jetée is on Vimeo on the cinebuleuse channel.
Why did they never make a massive film out of one of his books? - that's what I'd like to know.
@ivanschekoldin7315
3 жыл бұрын
Johnny Mnemonic to some extent is one
@MrDahlbacken
Жыл бұрын
Well...
@AdrianMidgley
Жыл бұрын
Films are made from scripts of length more similar to a novella . These books are a bit long. Johnny Mnemonic, the text, is not long. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an exception, as are the Harry Potters..
@3choblast3r4
11 ай бұрын
They've been trying for decades... I don't think we will ever get a good show or movie about the book not soon anyway, because studio's are too worried about anything that is even slightly controversial and put DEI / ESG over all
Just thinking I’m a bit different is cool
The interviewer doesn't know the words haptic and glitch? I mean they were pretty much in widespread use at the time of this interview I imagine. Although I guess if you game a lot you're more likely to hear stuff like "glitch" and if you're more aware of tech you're likely aware of what haptic/haptic feedback is .. putting the two together you can imagine what a haptic glitching might means Although it doesn't make sense from the first sentence. So what ever her brother is doing isn't because of PTSD but because (cybernetic) systems regulating his haptics (sense of touch) glitched.
While making this comment frightens me, thank you You Tube Algorithm for showing me this.
This guy wrote a history of time travel and he asks "What was (the time machine) in the Michael J Fox movies?". Funny stuff
I have 2 comments for Mr. Gibson. 1) Eunice having an introductory party similar to saying "Hello World" was brilliant from a cyberpunk perspective and reminded me why Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition made me a long time fan. "[...]A very uncanny valley kinda vibe[...]" - Justin LaVine, how you gained my admiration and respect as one author to another... 2) With regards to Mr. Gibson's personification of U.S. military personnel, it is my opinion he is personally glorifying war criminals and cyberterrorists as brave, heroic, and deserving of my attention as a fiction character or caricature of DARPA/U.S. military personnel. -Justin LaVine, how you lost my use for you as a human being... I do books apparently that suck and decent copy write work for that "juege it up effect"...desperately in need of work and medical attention. HMU Same thing with you Gleick, if you're the science book author...comments pending...
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Say everything twice if they’re holding you hostage lol my guy you saying everything twice. It’s ok I listened to Neuromancer about 200 times now. Speak on plzz
Wow. Didn't realize Gibson was so.... um... un-dynamic.
@TheMammouthpower
7 жыл бұрын
watch it x1,25 !
@santosd6065
7 жыл бұрын
Ha ha
@petewdev5591
7 жыл бұрын
He's getting on - around 65 years old when this video was made. He also took a lot of drugs when he was younger...
@davidmiller9485
4 жыл бұрын
um he's a thinker, he rehashes his answers over again. then does it again. That's why he seems so "un-dynamic"
@1Phedre
4 жыл бұрын
His books are quite dynamic enough.