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William Gibson - Cyberpunk - BBC Late Show © 1991

SF writer William Gibson
interview + reading from his own work
BBC Late Show ©1991

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  • @Adriipht6969
    @Adriipht6969 Жыл бұрын

    I'm 100% convinced Keanu used WIlliam Gibsons voice as a reference for Johnny Silverhand. It sounds so similar

  • @JD.78
    @JD.78 Жыл бұрын

    Nothing instills the sense of retro-futurism than a copy of Neuromancer sitting beside a Walkman. If you know, you know...

  • @SoonGone

    @SoonGone

    4 ай бұрын

    Is this a reference to something?

  • @05Rudey
    @05Rudey6 жыл бұрын

    He wrote Neuromancer while I was still using a Vic-20, long before the public really knew about a thing called the internet, yet Gibson visualised not only the Internet, but a very likely future of the virtual-reality equivalent of the Internet, which was a big thing in the 90's, but the technology just wasn't there and sort of died and faded out of popularity. VR became popular again, imo when Oculus Rift where making waves in the tech community 2010(ish). He is a visionary.

  • @LindsayKay

    @LindsayKay

    5 жыл бұрын

    Probably a big part of why the novel worked so well - one had to use imagination! The reality of much of this tech in the 20th/21st century is kind of a downer. The engineer in me is torn and wants secretly to go Luddite at times.

  • @Y2Kr4SHM4N

    @Y2Kr4SHM4N

    3 жыл бұрын

    That’s why I got into VR. Sure, I played VR titles on the amiga at games expos, but in the 2010s, I was totally thinking Neuromancer.

  • @wolfgangschmid7812

    @wolfgangschmid7812

    2 жыл бұрын

    i remember being a young kid in the 90’s and the closest i saw to VR was a very short lived thing at 6 flags. even if it didn’t crash all the time, it wasn’t worth the line at all

  • @eyeseer1

    @eyeseer1

    Жыл бұрын

    Tron lightly predated what Gibson wrote in 1984 and what The Matrix emphasizes in 1999. A futurist window for 1984.

  • @loganriling4888

    @loganriling4888

    Жыл бұрын

    @@eyeseer1 is tron considered "cyberpunk" material?

  • @Ikkei-4444
    @Ikkei-44442 жыл бұрын

    Listening to William gibson readings of neuromancer gives me the same feeling/rush/awe of seeing a gorgeous car or a stunning woman, it throws me into a trance and takes my breath away and I’m just dumbfounded

  • @Sephor69

    @Sephor69

    Жыл бұрын

    What if it is kind of primordial instinct of our brain giving us clues that we in a simulation trying to wake up

  • @dirkdiggler.

    @dirkdiggler.

    Жыл бұрын

    This guy fucks his car

  • @marypoppins1853

    @marypoppins1853

    10 ай бұрын

    Gayest statement ever

  • @totalpartykill999

    @totalpartykill999

    5 ай бұрын

    interesting.

  • @LindsayKay
    @LindsayKay5 жыл бұрын

    Burning Chrome hit me like a ketamine brick when I was a teen. Late nights writing code and listening to industrial music, then that came along, phew.

  • @tylerperkinson1677

    @tylerperkinson1677

    4 жыл бұрын

    What years, and what industrial? Sounds like the life I should have lived. Was there any Skinny Puppy in there?

  • @joshcraft197

    @joshcraft197

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds dreamy af

  • @yegenek
    @yegenek3 жыл бұрын

    Can you believe he is 43 years old here?

  • @ToABrighterFuture

    @ToABrighterFuture

    6 ай бұрын

    And he still has hair!

  • @MLB9000
    @MLB90005 жыл бұрын

    Gibson invented 1.5 new genres, not bad considering most writers don’t even invent any.

  • @thomasjardine2108

    @thomasjardine2108

    5 жыл бұрын

    1.5?

  • @MLB9000

    @MLB9000

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cyberpunk 1, and 0.5 of Steampunk @@thomasjardine2108

  • @thomasjardine2108

    @thomasjardine2108

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@MLB9000 I'm not sure he did anything along the lines of Steampunk

  • @MLB9000

    @MLB9000

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasjardine2108 From wikipedia: "Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre steampunk."

  • @richarddeese1991
    @richarddeese19914 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. This series of videos has certainly been an unusual & entertaining look into the origins of cyberspace & the cyberpunk aesthetic. There have clearly been many, many stories involving computers, long before they were a common & central part of our personal lives. What's most fascinating to me is how, just when that was actually happening in the late 70s & early 80s - but long before anything like the internet ever began to take shape - we started telling ourselves new stories altogether. There seemed to be a very unconscious fear & loneliness - or the anticipation of such - in us, of becoming lost in a purely technological & computerized landscape. And right then, we saw stories emerge wherein writers of books, movies, etc., helped us deal with that, by envisioning just such a world. The protagonists of these tales did, indeed, find themselves in breathtaking vistas entirely wrought in ones & zeros - the digital bits of a computer dreamworld made real. It may have been exactly the right therapeutic regimen we needed, to prepare us for the blossoming age of the human / computer interface. I find it nothing short of amazing that a few people had the vision to look ahead and see some of the issues we would face, and the courage to show it to us before we were engulfed by it. So thank you to all those who gave us a little taste - and a warning - of things to come. tavi.

  • @wesesheskhnemtuhit
    @wesesheskhnemtuhit5 жыл бұрын

    Gibson and Sterling are giants! It's fun there's also Timothy Leary throwing in his 5 cents.

  • @KlausBahnhof
    @KlausBahnhof6 жыл бұрын

    Nice to hear Kraftwerk's Technopop on this.

  • @sofiagisondi5543

    @sofiagisondi5543

    Жыл бұрын

    GOD THE PERFECT CROSS OVER

  • @mheiseus
    @mheiseus3 жыл бұрын

    A true prophet of sci-fi up there with Jules Verne

  • @freakyfadge
    @freakyfadge3 жыл бұрын

    "I really don't think of myself as a predictive, extrapolative science fiction writer..." Sorry mate, that's what you are

  • @Peace2051
    @Peace20517 ай бұрын

    This is amazingly prescient considering that it was made a third of a century ago!

  • @SanFran51
    @SanFran513 жыл бұрын

    "Tell me more about this Cyberspace..... do you think it will catch on?"

  • @JohnTLyon
    @JohnTLyon Жыл бұрын

    Punk is outlaw. Dangerous. Anarchic. Gotta love it!

  • @Asterisk_OS
    @Asterisk_OS6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for uploading this.

  • @Disco1000
    @Disco10004 ай бұрын

    Wonderful. Thank you!

  • @numberfive2848
    @numberfive28486 жыл бұрын

    "The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise was quoted extensively in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. The parallel with Babbage's computing machines is made explicit, as allowing plausibility to the theory that transmutation of species could be pre-programmed." ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage )

  • @3ertin
    @3ertin4 жыл бұрын

    Cyberspace, Microsoft, Yonderboy, the Matrix

  • @eyeseer1

    @eyeseer1

    Жыл бұрын

    Quantum computers, Bots, data mining, identity theft, Memes, Google goggles, catfishing.

  • @seanturner1197
    @seanturner1197 Жыл бұрын

    It just hit me; Hal Emmerich, aka Otacon and his Dad, Huey, bear a strong resemblance to William Gibson. Did Kojima also read Neuromancer?

  • @will-love-lvx

    @will-love-lvx

    9 ай бұрын

    Oh I would say he did.

  • @anurag3619

    @anurag3619

    Ай бұрын

    Absolutely he did. Necromancer is the CyberBible

  • @seanturner1197

    @seanturner1197

    Ай бұрын

    @@anurag3619 I knew it. I wonder if William Gibson is doing alright. It seems like neauromancer was just a one hit. I hope he's doing okay.

  • @johnnykobra7256
    @johnnykobra72563 жыл бұрын

    It's not like I use drugs......my body has just grown a major drug defecency.

  • @ryangarritty9761
    @ryangarritty97615 жыл бұрын

    I used to love BBC2's The Late Show.

  • @scr3wage
    @scr3wage4 жыл бұрын

    Angel Biotech... where are you now

  • @JohnTLyon
    @JohnTLyon Жыл бұрын

    The Difference Engine... Is this the birth of steampunk?

  • @razumijinatreides4691

    @razumijinatreides4691

    11 ай бұрын

    There are steampunk novels and short stories before 1990. Tim Powers' "The gates of Anubis" is from the 80's I believe and KW Jeter coined the term in those years.

  • @darthmemeious9526
    @darthmemeious95265 ай бұрын

    with virtual reality being what it is, i really wish we had developed sim stim instead.

  • @theboogie_monsta
    @theboogie_monsta3 жыл бұрын

    0:34 droid has left the chat

  • @palchristianandersen9086
    @palchristianandersen9086 Жыл бұрын

    "I couldn't believe what I was seeing. My cyber garage was covered in cyber graffiti. "This has to be the work of those damn cyberpunks from up the street," I thought. I turned back from the window to face the television in the living room. It was tuned to a dead channel. An anger rose up inside me. The same anger that had helped me get through the GONGO-12 conflict in the BLING BLONG sector. "They cut my cable. Those damn cyberpunks cut my cable!" -William Gibson, The Cyberpunks.

  • @BADSOI
    @BADSOI5 ай бұрын

    Why is this 2024 in a nutshell?

  • @danielbergstrom3526
    @danielbergstrom352610 күн бұрын

    Beautiful, Archaic, Nostalgic - but still in the future. Weird...

  • @plunderpunk2
    @plunderpunk24 жыл бұрын

    5:08 is what we do all day in part to absorb content incl. Gibson's

  • @daliparton777
    @daliparton7773 жыл бұрын

    6:36 with a Gertrude Stein quote? Nice reinterpretation of it.

  • @mheiseus
    @mheiseus3 жыл бұрын

    God damn he was so right

  • @warmecanic
    @warmecanic2 жыл бұрын

    2:09 wait a second, burning chrome was earlier than neuromancer, right?

  • @cybertrophic

    @cybertrophic

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup. A short story he wrote there (“Johnny Mnemonic”) really started the idea, but it was expanded upon and crystallised with Neuromancer. Mona Lisa Overdrive is the sequel.

  • @exiles_dot_tv
    @exiles_dot_tv5 жыл бұрын

    Almost sounds like William Gibson has a British accent in some parts of this.

  • @popeyedoyle6360

    @popeyedoyle6360

    2 жыл бұрын

    He's from Canada no?

  • @ConeFlower-gx2qk
    @ConeFlower-gx2qk17 күн бұрын

    It’s that accent that get to me. It’s reminds me of someone trying to covering up a southern accent. Maybe I’m projecting cuz I’m from Atlanta but it sounds like my friends and I talking. I mean he’s from North Carolina right?

  • @bcx1138
    @bcx1138 Жыл бұрын

    Liberal arts majors will always be the most brilliant ppl

  • @godofchaoskhorne5043
    @godofchaoskhorne5043 Жыл бұрын

    No cyber does not mean pilot old son

  • @JoaoChimay
    @JoaoChimay6 жыл бұрын

    so the vr already existed in the 90's huh...

  • @Mynipplesmychoice

    @Mynipplesmychoice

    6 жыл бұрын

    João Macario tablets to but sucked wnd was useless. They had srlf driving cars in the eighties which wasnt bad

  • @RhysOlwyn

    @RhysOlwyn

    5 жыл бұрын

    There was a VR based game show on TV here in the UK in the early 90s called Cyber Zone

  • @themarsvoltas

    @themarsvoltas

    5 жыл бұрын

    I remember going to Ceder Point and they had Duke Nuke'em VR in the early 90's. Similar what we got now. A bigger contraption.

  • @eyeseer1

    @eyeseer1

    Жыл бұрын

    VR was popularized in 1990, but “cyberspace” was phrased in 1984.

  • @will-love-lvx

    @will-love-lvx

    9 ай бұрын

    Yea, but it sucked.

  • @hanniffydinn6019
    @hanniffydinn60196 жыл бұрын

    He does time travel now ...

  • @joshporter5205

    @joshporter5205

    3 жыл бұрын

    ... sorta.

  • @End-Result
    @End-Result3 жыл бұрын

    The fateful year most of us elderly millennials were born...

  • @AleksandarBloom

    @AleksandarBloom

    3 жыл бұрын

    what do you mean? seriously.

  • @The-Autistocrat-

    @The-Autistocrat-

    Жыл бұрын

    Nah that's closer to the end of millenials

  • @MrJibsIV
    @MrJibsIV3 жыл бұрын

    Harrowing.

  • @bernardocoto8519
    @bernardocoto85194 жыл бұрын

    Cool, he's a great writer with a lot of style and creativity, yet he's so dismissive about everything surrounding cyberpunk, I guess he was afraid the fad would overwhelm his writing...

  • @xn0gaming

    @xn0gaming

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well he anticipated that his vision would be outdated by now, and it really is. What we see now with Games like HL: Alyx is not really the Cyberspace he envisioned but just an enclosed space in a predefined environment, not the Wild West that the "Deck Jockeys" of his writings were experiencing.

  • @ToABrighterFuture

    @ToABrighterFuture

    6 ай бұрын

    Well, there is that part in Neuromancer that involves the precise ringing of a bunch of pay phones. To be fair, widespread cellular use wasn't going to be on the horizon for a few more years. If you watch Series 1 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), for instance, their communicators would still have been sci-fi at the time. In the 2003 series, they would be called "Shell cells." Technology moves fast, even in sci-fi.

  • @Calypso694
    @Calypso6944 жыл бұрын

    Gibson is overrated.

  • @riggsbr1

    @riggsbr1

    4 жыл бұрын

    You’re overrated

  • @tkeleth2931

    @tkeleth2931

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@riggsbr1 nah, somebody has to give a shit to overrate something

  • @freqout674

    @freqout674

    3 жыл бұрын

    I place videos on KZread out of respect and interest. No need to hear somebody saying what he doesn't like about it. But if you feel the urge, then do that on your own KZread channel. Simple as that.