The 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling Stone magazine has an interview with William Gibson, including some musings on the future of computing.

When you coined the word “cyberspace,” did you envision that the term might be your lasting legacy?

Not at all. I thought the book would be despised to the extent that it wasn’t ignored. Now, on a good day, my career seems so utterly unlikely that I wonder if I’m not about to snap out of a DMT blackout and discover that I’m not actually a famous writer of William Gibson novels but that I’m working at a used-book shop that smells of cat pee and drinking beer out of a cracked coffee mug.

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